Bill Text: NY A04074 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 4074 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to municipal directors of weights and measures, permitting the county of Westchester to designate its commissioner or director of consumer affairs as its director of weights and measures.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - SIGNED CHAP.350 [A04074 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04074-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4074--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, OTIS, GALEF, ABINANTI, BYRNE -- read once
          and  referred to the Committee on Agriculture -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
        AN  ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to munici-
          pal directors of weights and measures
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 180 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law,  as  amended  by  section 1 of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of
     3  2010, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. There shall be a county director of weights and  measures  in  each
     5  county, except where (a) a county is wholly embraced within a city there
     6  shall  be  a  city director of weights and measures, or (b) where two or
     7  more counties have entered into an intermunicipal agreement, pursuant to
     8  article five-G of the general municipal law,  to  share  the  functions,
     9  powers,  and  duties of one director of weights and measures. Any county
    10  or city having a population of one million or more may elect  to  desig-
    11  nate its commissioner of consumer affairs as its director of weights and
    12  measures.  The  county of Westchester may elect to designate its commis-
    13  sioner or director of consumer affairs as its director  of  weights  and
    14  measures.  Subdivision four of this section shall not apply to a commis-
    15  sioner or director of consumer affairs so designated.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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