Bill Text: NY S03354 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to special provisions for not-for-profit sales.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S03354 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03354-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3354
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 1, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- 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 special
         provisions of the not-for-profit sales
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 802 of the general business law, as added by chap-
    2  ter 599 of the laws of 1998, subdivision 1 as designated and subdivision
    3  2 as added by chapter 301 of the laws of 2000, is  amended  to  read  as
    4  follows:
    5    S  802.  Special provisions[; not-for-profit sales]. 1.  [No otolaryn-
    6  gologist or other licensed physician who has conducted a medical  evalu-
    7  ation of hearing loss shall engage in the business of dispensing hearing
    8  aids  for a profit.] No otolaryngologist or other licensed physician who
    9  has dispensed a hearing aid shall refuse or fail to perform  repairs  or
   10  service on any hearing aid that they have dispensed.
   11    2.  Every  licensed physician who engages in the dispensing of hearing
   12  aids in compliance with the provisions of this section shall be required
   13  to comply with sections seven hundred ninety-one, seven hundred  ninety-
   14  eight and eight hundred three of this article, in addition to compliance
   15  with this section.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06413-01-3
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