Bill Text: NY S05756 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the grade of diesel fuel to be posted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - SIGNED CHAP.303 [S05756 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05756-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5756

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. METZGER -- (at request of the Department of Agricul-
          ture and Markets) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
          to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture

        AN  ACT  to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to diesel
          fuel grade posting requirements

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The section heading, paragraph b of subdivision 3 and para-
     2  graph b of subdivision 5 of section 192-c of the agriculture and markets
     3  law, as added by chapter 716 of the laws of 1989, are amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    Motor  fuel  standards  and labelling; [cetane rating] grade of diesel
     6  fuel; alcohol content.
     7    b. A refiner, distributor or reseller  shall  not  transfer,  sell  or
     8  dispense  diesel  motor  fuel  in  this  state without delivering to the
     9  purchaser a bill, invoice or other instrument evidencing the transaction
    10  which shall indicate the [cetane rating]  grade  of  such  diesel  motor
    11  fuel.
    12    b. A retailer shall not transfer, sell, dispense or offer diesel motor
    13  fuel  for  sale  in  this  state  unless the retail petroleum dispensing
    14  device displays a sign disclosing the [minimum cetane rating] grade.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09039-01-9
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