Bill Text: NY S03798 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires signs to be posted at gasoline stations for consumers to contact the department of state regarding price or product problems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 3798A [S03798 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S03798-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3798--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 17, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law and the executive law, in relation to protecting consumers from price gouging and product tampering of gasoline The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 192 of the agricul- 2 ture and markets law, as amended by chapter 101 of the laws of 1986, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 a. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or 5 offer for sale at retail for use in internal combustion engines in motor 6 vehicles or motorboats any motor fuel unless such seller shall: 7 (i) post and keep posted on the dispensing device from which such 8 motor fuel is sold or offered for sale a sign or placard, at least 9 twelve inches in height and at least twelve inches in width, stating 10 clearly and legibly with the whole cent numerals at least nine inches in 11 height and at least two inches in width, the selling price per gallon of 12 such motor fuel; or 13 (ii) where such individual pump or dispensing device dispenses more 14 than two differently priced grades of motor fuel, only the highest and 15 lowest selling price per gallon of such motor fuel dispensed therefrom 16 must be posted thereon in conformance with all other provisions of this 17 subdivision; or 18 (iii) where a multiple product dispensing device is capable of 19 dispensing multiple products at multiple prices, then the selling price 20 per gallon may be posted thereon with numerals at least one-half that 21 height and one-half that width required by subparagraph (i) of this EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02250-05-6
