Bill Text: NY S05126 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to home improvement contract provisions.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-18 - PRINT NUMBER 5126A [S05126 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05126-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5126--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 4, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- 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  home  improve-
          ment contract provisions
          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 770 of the general business law is
     2  amended by adding three new paragraphs (f),  (g)  and  (h)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (f)  an  owner  or farm property owner who physically performs, or has
     5  employees who perform repairing, remodeling,  altering,  converting,  or
     6  modernizing  of,  or  adding to, their own dwelling or another structure
     7  located on the property owned by the person without the assistance of  a
     8  home improvement contractor.
     9    (g)  any  authorized  employee  or representative of the United States
    10  government, the state of New York, or any political subdivision perform-
    11  ing the repairing, remodeling, altering, converting, or modernizing  of,
    12  or adding to, government property.
    13    (h) any person who furnishes any fabricated or finished product, mate-
    14  rial,  or  article  of  merchandise  that  is  not  incorporated into or
    15  attached to real property by the person so as to become affixed  to  the
    16  residential property.
    17    §  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section  771 of the general business law is
    18  amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
    19    (i) The name of the insurer, type of insurance coverage as required by
    20  section seven hundred seventy-one-b of this article, and  the  insurance
    21  policy limits obtained by the home improvement contractor.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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