Bill Text: NY A04686 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish a uniform letter grading system to classify the result of an inspection of a mobile public food service establishment or pushcart in cities with a population of two million or more; directs such commissioner and local health officers to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system; requires reinspection of establishment receiving a grade of less than "A".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A04686 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04686-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4686--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 5, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MOYA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the establishment of a letter grading system to classify inspection results for push- carts in cities having a population of two million or more The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 1352-f to read as follows: 3 § 1352-f. Food pushcart service grading system; cities of two million 4 or more. 1. The commissioner shall establish a system for grading 5 inspection results for mobile food service establishments and pushcarts 6 as defined in the state sanitary code, operated in cities with a popu- 7 lation of two million or more. 8 2. Such system shall use and post letters A, B or C to identify and 9 represent such grading and classification with all other lower grades 10 being deemed to be failing grades. In establishing such system of grad- 11 ing, the commissioner shall take into account the provisions of this 12 title and the provisions of the sanitary code to establish a grading 13 system that reflects the safety and sanitation of the premises and food 14 handling practices to ensure compliance with state and local health 15 laws. 16 3. Each such mobile food service establishment or pushcart shall 17 conspicuously post at the point of sale the letter grade identifying and 18 representing the result of such establishment's or pushcart's most 19 recently graded inspection by the local health officer or the entity 20 responsible for such inspection. Such posting shall be done in accord- 21 ance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner. For 22 any mobile public food service establishment or pushcart receiving a EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00151-03-6
