Bill Text: NY S00348 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that a photographic image be taken of every municipal sanitation violation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S00348 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00348-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 348 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the production of a photographic image of each violation of a local law, ordinance or code relating to sanitation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 137 to read as follows: 3 § 137. Photographic images of sanitation violations. No agent of a 4 city, town, village or county shall charge any person with the violation 5 of any local law, ordinance or code relating to sanitation, until such 6 agent shall have caused a photographic image of the unsanitary condition 7 to be produced. Two copies of each such photographic image shall be 8 produced, with one such copy being attached to the instrument charging 9 such violation which is provided to the person alleged to have committed 10 the violation, and the remaining copy shall be retained by the city, 11 town, village or county. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02612-01-9
