Bill Text: NY A03787 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "lawn litter law act"; relates to the rebuttable presumption regarding distributing unsolicited advertising on private property in cities with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to cities [A03787 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03787-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3787
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 31, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Cities
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  enacting  the
          "lawn litter law act"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and  may  be  cited  as  the  "lawn
     2  litter law act".
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  3 of section 397-a of the general business law, as
     4  amended by chapter 3 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     5    3. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name,
     6  telephone number, or other identifying information appears on any  unso-
     7  licited  advertising  materials  described  in  subdivision  one of this
     8  section [and placed at two or more premises] shall  be  liable  for  any
     9  violations of this section.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00995-01-9