Bill Text: NY S02689 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that a photographic image be taken of every municipal sanitation violation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S02689 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02689-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2689
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 27, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the
production of a photographic image of each violation of a local law,
ordinance or code relating to sanitation
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 137 to read as follows:
3 S 137. PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES OF SANITATION VIOLATIONS. NO AGENT OF A
4 CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE OR COUNTY SHALL CHARGE ANY PERSON WITH THE VIOLATION
5 OF ANY LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE OR CODE RELATING TO SANITATION, UNTIL SUCH
6 AGENT SHALL HAVE CAUSED A PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF THE UNSANITARY CONDITION
7 TO BE PRODUCED. TWO COPIES OF EACH SUCH PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE SHALL BE
8 PRODUCED, WITH ONE SUCH COPY BEING ATTACHED TO THE INSTRUMENT CHARGING
9 SUCH VIOLATION WHICH IS PROVIDED TO THE PERSON ALLEGED TO HAVE COMMITTED
10 THE VIOLATION, AND THE REMAINING COPY SHALL BE RETAINED BY THE CITY,
11 TOWN, VILLAGE OR COUNTY.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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