Bill Text: NY A05169 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the written notices, signs and markers required for pesticides for commercial and residential lawn application to be printed in both the English and Spanish languages and any other languages if the commissioner of environmental conservation deems it necessary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-08-24 - signed chap.145 [A05169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05169-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5169--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on Envi-
          ronmental Conservation 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  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          requiring certain signs and notices relating to pesticides for commer-
          cial or residential lawn application to be printed in both the English
          and Spanish languages

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section
     2  33-1004 of the environmental conservation law, as added by  chapter  285
     3  of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  All  persons performing residential lawn applications treating an
     5  area more than one hundred square feet shall affix markers to be  placed
     6  within  or  along  the  perimeter  of  the area where pesticides will be
     7  applied. Markers are to be placed so as to be clearly visible to persons
     8  immediately outside the perimeter of such property. [Such markers] Mark-
     9  ers shall be posted at least twelve inches above the ground and shall be
    10  at least four inches by five inches in size. Such markers  shall  be  in
    11  both  the  English and Spanish languages, and any other languages if the
    12  commissioner deems it necessary pursuant to rules and regulations.
    13    § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 33-1005 of  the
    14  environmental  conservation  law, as added by chapter 285 of the laws of
    15  2000, is amended to read as follows:
    16    The commissioner shall promulgate rules and  regulations  establishing
    17  uniform  standards  for  a consumer pesticide use information sign which
    18  shall be placed in retail establishments that sell  general  use  pesti-
    19  cides for commercial or residential lawn application. This sign shall be
    20  in  both  the  English and Spanish languages, and any other languages if

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the commissioner deems it necessary pursuant to rules  and  regulations,
     2  and shall contain the following information:
     3    §  3.  Subdivision 2 of section 33-1005 of the environmental conserva-
     4  tion law, as added by chapter 285 of the laws of  2000,  is  amended  to
     5  read as follows:
     6    2.  The  commissioner  shall prepare and publish, in consultation with
     7  the commissioner of health, educational materials, in both  the  English
     8  and  Spanish languages and any other languages if the commissioner deems
     9  it necessary, explaining the requirements  of  paragraphs  b  and  c  of
    10  subdivision  one  of  section  33-1004 of this article and section three
    11  hundred ninety-c of the social services law and the human  and  environ-
    12  mental health effects of lawn care pesticides.
    13    §  4.  Subdivision 3 of section 33-1005 of the environmental conserva-
    14  tion law, as added by chapter 285 of the laws of  2000,  is  amended  by
    15  adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
    16    c.  The  written  notice required by paragraph b of subdivision one of
    17  section 33-1004 of this article shall be in both the English and Spanish
    18  languages, and any other languages if the commissioner deems  it  neces-
    19  sary pursuant to rules and regulations.
    20    § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.