Bill Text: NY A08676 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a deposit initiator or distributor to count empty containers by mechanical process at a location other than the redemption center or dealer's place of business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A08676 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08676-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8676
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 3, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Environmental Conservation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
         authorizing deposit initiators or distributors to count empty contain-
         ers by mechanical process at a  location  other  than  the  redemption
         center or dealer's place of business
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 8 of section  27-1007  of  the
    2  environmental  conservation  law,  as  added  by section 4 of part SS of
    3  chapter 59 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (b) A  deposit  initiator  or  distributor  shall  not  require  empty
    5  containers  to be counted at a location other than the redemption center
    6  or dealer's place of business. The dealer  or  redemption  center  shall
    7  have the right to be present at the count, UNLESS SUCH DEPOSIT INITIATOR
    8  OR  DISTRIBUTOR  COUNTS  EMPTY  CONTAINERS  AT A LOCATION OTHER THAN THE
    9  REDEMPTION CENTER OR DEALER'S PLACE OF BUSINESS BY MEANS OF A MECHANICAL
   10  PROCESS WHICH SHALL BE ANNUALLY CERTIFIED TO ITS ACCURACY BY A QUALIFIED
   11  INDEPENDENT THIRD-PARTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMUL-
   12  GATED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
   14  manner  as  section 4 of part SS of chapter 59 of the laws of 2009 takes
   15  effect.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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