Bill Text: NY S04080 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires food retailers to provide scales for customer use in an accessible location and with a conspicuous sign reading "for customer use".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-01 - SIGNED CHAP.43 [S04080 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S04080-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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S. 4080 A. 6423
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
March 16, 2011
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir-
ing food retailers to provide scales for customer use
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 190 of the agriculture and markets
2 law, as added by chapter 874 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. Wherever food or food products are packaged or wrapped for sale by
5 a retailer in advance of being sold, or offered or exposed for sale, an
6 accurate computing scale of sufficient capacity shall be maintained.
7 Such scale shall be [located not more than thirty feet from the pre-
8 packaged display and shall be so] placed as to be easily accessible to
9 customers[. A] AND A prominent and conspicuous sign reading "for custom-
10 er use" shall be displayed on or near such scale.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10201-01-1
