Bill Text: NY A03487 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires retailers to photograph customers with jewelry and other precious metals sold or loaned to the retailer and requires such retailers to keep such items for a period of ten days from the date of purchase.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to economic development [A03487 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03487-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3487
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Economic Development
        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          retail purchasers to photograph jewelry purchased from customers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  397-b to read as follows:
     3    § 397-b. Retail purchasers required to  document  gold  purchases.  1.
     4  Any  person, corporation, partnership or firm purchasing jewelry, watch-
     5  es, precious stones, precious metals or coins  at  retail,  including  a
     6  collateral  loan broker, shall photograph the seller with the items sold
     7  or loaned to the purchaser and store the photograph  on  their  premises
     8  and open for inspection for a period of not less than six months.
     9    2.  Any  such  person,  corporation, partnership or firm purchasing or
    10  accepting on loan  such  jewelry,  watches,  precious  stones,  precious
    11  metals  or  coins  at retail, shall, at a minimum, keep such items for a
    12  period of not less than ten days from the date of such purchase or loan.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02717-01-7
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