Bill Text: NY S08424 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits fractional pricing of any motor fuel for use in internal combustion engines in motor vehicles or motorboats; imposes civil penalties of up to twenty-five dollars per day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S08424 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08424-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8424

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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  prohib-
          iting fractional pricing of certain petroleum products

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

     1    Section 1. Section 192 of the agriculture and markets law  is  amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  No  person,  firm  or  corporation shall sell or offer for sale at
     4  retail any motor fuel for use in internal combustion  engines  in  motor
     5  vehicles  or  motorboats  with a selling price per gallon which includes
     6  any fraction of a cent.  Failure to comply with the  provision  of  this
     7  subdivision    shall subject such person, firm or corporation to a civil
     8  penalty of up to twenty-five dollars for each day such failure occurs.
     9    § 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 192
    10  of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by  chapter  101  of  the
    11  laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
    12    (iii)  where  a  multiple  product  dispensing  device  is  capable of
    13  dispensing multiple products at multiple prices, then the selling  price
    14  per  gallon  may  be posted thereon with numerals at least one-half that
    15  height and one-half that width required  by  subparagraph  (i)  of  this
    16  paragraph[,  although  numerals  representing  tenths  of  a cent may be
    17  displayed at no less than one-half those dimensions which  disclose  the
    18  selling price per gallon of such motor fuel dispensed therefrom].
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    20  it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
    21  agriculture and markets is authorized to promulgate any rules and  regu-
    22  lations  necessary  to  implement  this  act on or before such effective
    23  date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13201-02-3