Bill Text: NY A09330 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands requirements for individual sewage disposal system disclosures to include home sellers; increases penalties for violations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-29 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A09330 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A09330-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9330 IN ASSEMBLY February 29, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to individual sewage disposal system disclosures The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 5 of section 396-s of the general 2 business law, as added by chapter 521 of the laws of 1980, are amended 3 to read as follows: 4 2. On and after July first, [nineteen hundred eighty-one] two thousand 5 twenty-five every home seller and vendor shall, either in person or by 6 certified mail, deliver to a vendee at the time of the transfer of title 7 of the [newly constructed] home serviced by an individual sewage 8 disposal system a copy of the health bulletin. If the political subdivi- 9 sion within which the home is located has published a waste treatment 10 handbook or pamphlet on individual sewage disposal systems, the home 11 seller or vendor, as applicable, shall supply a copy of such informa- 12 tional material to the vendee in the same manner as the health pamphlet. 13 3. The commissioner of the department of health is hereby directed to 14 modify the contents of the health pamphlet in such a manner that such 15 bulletin shall contain information relating to the proper method of 16 operating and maintaining individual sewage disposal systems. Such 17 information shall be in clear and concise language readily comprehensi- 18 ble by vendees and shall identify potential problems that vendees may 19 encounter with individual sewage disposal systems. The modification to 20 the health bulletin required by this subdivision shall be made on or 21 before the effective date of this section and shall be included within 22 any health pamphlet to be distributed by the department on and after 23 July first, [nineteen hundred eighty-one] thousand twenty-five. 24 5. Any home seller or vendor violating this section shall be subject 25 to a fine of [one] five hundred dollars. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14097-01-4