Bill Text: NY A10180 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits gas stations from advertising only cash discounted prices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-10 - referred to agriculture [A10180 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10180-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10180
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 10, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Agriculture
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
         advertising of prices of certain petroleum products
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 192 of the agriculture and markets law is amended
    2  by adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
    3    5-A. A. NO PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION THAT SELLS OR OFFERS TO SELL AT
    4  RETAIL MOTOR FUEL FOR USE IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES IN MOTOR  VEHI-
    5  CLES OR MOTORBOATS SHALL ADVERTISE A DISCOUNTED PRICE FOR CASH PURCHASES
    6  UNLESS:
    7    (I)  SUCH  PERSON,  FIRM  OR CORPORATION ALSO ADVERTISES THE PRICE FOR
    8  CREDIT PURCHASES FOR THE SAME FUEL TYPE; AND
    9    (II) THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR CREDIT PRICES IS THE SAME  SIZE  OR  LARGER
   10  THAN THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE REDUCED CASH PURCHASE PRICE.
   11    B.  ANY  PERSON, FIRM, OR CORPORATION WHO SHALL VIOLATE THE PROVISIONS
   12  OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE LIABLE TO A CIVIL PENALTY  OF  ONE  HUNDRED
   13  DOLLARS  FOR  EACH DAY OR PORTION THEREOF THAT THE ILLEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
   14  IS PORTRAYED TO THE CONSUMERS.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15633-01-2