Bill Text: NY S00699 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the rebuttable presumption relating to identifying information on an unsolicited advertisement in cities with a population of one million or more; provides that such presumption shall apply if the advertising materials are placed at any one premise.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S00699 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00699-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 699 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the rebuttable presumption relating to identifying information on an unsolicited advertisement in cities with a population of one million or more THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 397-a of the general business law, 2 as amended by chapter 3 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name, 5 telephone number, or other identifying information appears on any unso- 6 licited advertising materials described in subdivision one of this 7 section [and placed at two or more premises] shall be liable for any 8 violations of this section. 9 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00442-01-5