Bill Text: NY S04793 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4793 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to an exemption from the small food processing licensing requirements for pickling.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-11 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04793 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04793-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4793
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 24, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and  markets  law,  in  relation  to  an
         exemption  from  the  small food processing licensing requirements for
         pickling
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  251-z-4  of  the agriculture and markets law, as
    2  added by chapter 863 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 251-z-4. Exemptions. In addition  to  the  exemptions  specified  in
    4  subdivision  three  of  section  two  hundred  fifty-one-z-two  OF  THIS
    5  ARTICLE, the commissioner [may] SHALL, if he OR SHE determines that  the
    6  protection of the consumers of the state as a whole will not be impaired
    7  by  such  action,  provide by regulation for exemption from licensing of
    8  small food processing establishments, FOR  THE  PROCESSING  OF  FOOD  BY
    9  MEANS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PICKLING, when he OR SHE finds that
   10  such  exemptions  would  avoid  unnecessary regulation and assist in the
   11  administration of this article without  impairing  its  purposes.  Regu-
   12  lations  defining  such  exemptions may classify exempted establishments
   13  with respect to the volume and types of food handled, the types of proc-
   14  essing involved, or with respect to  any  other  factor  or  combination
   15  thereof  which  bear a reasonable relation to the purposes of this arti-
   16  cle. Such exemptions may be conditioned upon  requirements  relating  to
   17  sanitation,  record  keeping  and  reporting  as  the  commissioner  may
   18  require.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law, provided, however, that effective immediate-
   21  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any  rules  or  regulations
   22  necessary  for the implementation of this act on its effective date, are
   23  authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
   24  effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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