Bill Text: NY S03399 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires signs to be posted at gasoline stations for consumers to contact the department of state regarding price or product problems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 3399A [S03399 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03399-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         3399--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 6, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture -- recommitted
          to the Committee on Agriculture 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 agriculture and markets law and the executive law,
          in relation to protecting consumers from  price  gouging  and  product
          tampering of gasoline
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 192 of the agricul-
     2  ture and markets law, as amended by chapter 101 of the laws of 1986,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    a. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or
     5  offer for sale at retail for use in internal combustion engines in motor
     6  vehicles or motorboats any motor fuel unless such seller shall:
     7    (i)  post  and  keep  posted  on the dispensing device from which such
     8  motor fuel is sold or offered for sale  a  sign  or  placard,  at  least
     9  twelve  inches  in  height  and at least twelve inches in width, stating
    10  clearly and legibly with the whole cent numerals at least nine inches in
    11  height and at least two inches in width, the selling price per gallon of
    12  such motor fuel; or
    13    (ii) where such individual pump or dispensing  device  dispenses  more
    14  than  two  differently priced grades of motor fuel, only the highest and
    15  lowest selling price per gallon of such motor fuel  dispensed  therefrom
    16  must  be posted thereon in conformance with all other provisions of this
    17  subdivision; or
    18    (iii) where  a  multiple  product  dispensing  device  is  capable  of
    19  dispensing  multiple products at multiple prices, then the selling price
    20  per gallon may be posted thereon with numerals at  least  one-half  that
    21  height  and  one-half  that  width  required by subparagraph (i) of this
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02250-03-6
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