Bill Text: NY S04882 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4882 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits the sale or purchase of certain items as scrap: street signs, funeral markers, government entity, utility, cemetery or railroad items; preempts local laws.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-05 - referred to economic development [S04882 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04882-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4882--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 22, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection 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 general business law, in relation  to  licensing  of
          scrap producers in the state and certain cities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 69-e of the general business law, as added by chap-
     2  ter 431 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 69-e. Definitions. 1. "Scrap metal processing facility"  shall  mean
     4  an establishment engaged primarily in the purchase, processing and ship-
     5  ment of ferrous and/or non-ferrous scrap metal, the end product of which
     6  is  the  production  of  raw material [for remelting purposes] for steel
     7  mills, [foundaries] foundries, smelters, refiners,  and  similar  users,
     8  but  shall  not  include  a  redemption center, dealer or distributor as
     9  defined in section 27-1003 of the environmental conservation law  or  an
    10  electronic  waste  collection,  consolidation  or  recycling facility as
    11  defined in section 27-2601 of the environmental conservation law.
    12    2. "Scrap processor" shall mean any person,  association,  partnership
    13  or  corporation  operating  and  maintaining  a  "scrap metal processing
    14  facility".
    15    3. "Government issued  photographic  identification"  shall  mean  any
    16  current  and valid official form of identification issued by the govern-
    17  ment of the United States of America, a state, territory,  protectorate,
    18  or dependency of the United States of America, a county, municipality or
    19  subdivision  thereof,  any  public  agency or department thereof, or any
    20  public employer, which requires and bears the signature  and  photograph
    21  of the person to whom it is issued.
    22    4. "Department" shall mean the New York state department of state.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02765-07-6