Bill Text: NY S03158 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires sellers of apples and apple products treated with daminozide to be so labelled.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-10 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S03158 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03158-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3158
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 10, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to  requiring  the
         labeling  of apples and apple products offered for sale indicating the
         use of daminozide
         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  397-b to read as follows:
    3    S  397-B.  LABELING  OF  APPLES AND APPLE PRODUCTS. 1. NO PERSON SHALL
    4  SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE ANY APPLES OR APPLE PRODUCTS UNLESS  THERE  IS  A
    5  SIGN  POSTED  ABOVE OR AFFIXED TO THE DISPLAY STAND STATING WHETHER SUCH
    6  APPLES OFFERED FOR SALE OR THE APPLES USED IN  THE  PRODUCTION  OF  SUCH
    7  APPLE  PRODUCTS  HAVE  BEEN  TREATED WITH DAMINOZIDE. SUCH SIGN SHALL BE
    8  CONSPICUOUSLY POSTED WITH LETTERING  NO  SMALLER  THAN  FOUR  INCHES  IN
    9  HEIGHT.
   10    2.  ANY PERSON WHO SUPPLIES APPLES OR APPLE PRODUCTS TO ANOTHER PERSON
   11  FOR SALE AT RETAIL SHALL INCLUDE IN EACH DELIVERY, A CERTIFICATION ON  A
   12  FORM  PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS WHETHER SUCH
   13  APPLES WERE TREATED WITH DAMINOZIDE.
   14    3. ANY PERSON WHO SELLS  OR  OFFERS  FOR  SALE  ANY  APPLES  OR  APPLE
   15  PRODUCTS  IN VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY
   16  OF A MISDEMEANOR.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   18  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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