Bill Text: NY S00825 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 825 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires a warning instruction by a person, firm, corporation, or other legal entities which manufacture and assemble roller skates and skate boards; requires the warning to be contained on a label, hangtag, shield or plate or on the outside of the box which such pair of roller skates or skate boards are sold and in each instruction manual; sets forth penalties for violations; makes an exception for the sale of roller skates or skate boards sold or offered for sale by consumers for consumer use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - PRINT NUMBER 825A [S00825 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00825-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         825--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  DIAZ, HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer
          Protection  --  recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to notice require-
          ments in the manufacture, assembling and sale  of  roller  skates  and
          skate boards
          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  391-u to read as follows:
     3    § 391-u. Sale of roller skates and skate boards; notification.  1.  As
     4  used in this section, the following terms shall have the following mean-
     5  ings:
     6    (a) "Roller skate" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined
     7  by section one hundred forty-b of the vehicle and traffic law.
     8    (b)  "Skate board" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined
     9  by section one hundred forty-c of the vehicle and traffic law.
    10    (c) "Warning instruction" shall mean a  notice  in  substantially  the
    11  following  form  printed in clear and conspicuous type: "WARNING! REDUCE
    12  THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY AND ONLY USE (insert 'THESE SKATES' or  'THIS
    13  SKATE  BOARD',  as  appropriate)  WHILE  WEARING  FULL PROTECTIVE GEAR -
    14  HELMET, WRIST GUARDS, ELBOW PADS AND KNEE PADS."
    15    2. (a) No person, firm,  corporation,  or  other  legal  entity  which
    16  offers  to sell, or distribute in this state such roller skates shall do
    17  so unless: (i) a warning instruction  contained  on  a  label,  hangtag,
    18  shield or plate clearly visible to the consumer is placed on the outside
    19  of  the  box  in which such pair of roller skates is sold or offered for
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01275-02-6