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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4074
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Agriculture
        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 director
    13  of consumer affairs as its director of weights and measures. Subdivision
    14  four of this section shall not apply to a commissioner  or  director  of
    15  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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