Bill Text: NY S03645 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for assistance to disabled drivers at gas stations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S03645 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S03645-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3645 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 25, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 providing gas station assistance to disabled motorists The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 396-bb of the general busi- 2 ness law are renumbered subdivisions 3 and 4 and a new subdivision 2 is 3 added to read as follows: 4 2. a. Any gasoline station offering the public sale of gasoline at 5 self-service islands shall provide a minimum of one self-service island 6 device that allows a disabled person, parked at that station in a vehi- 7 cle displaying a disabled license plate issued by New York state or a 8 valid disabled license plate issued by any other state, or a valid disa- 9 bled license plate issued by the federal government, to signal an 10 employee that the driver requires assistance in dispensing motor fuel. 11 An attendant shall then arrive to dispense motor fuel at no additional 12 cost beyond the price that the fuel is being offered to the general 13 public. A device shall be installed that alerts the employee inside the 14 building that assistance is required at the pump, and shall be mounted 15 between thirty-four and forty-eight inches from the ground. A sign shall 16 be conspicuously posted at the self-service station that meets the Amer- 17 ican Disability Act Accessibility Guidelines identifying the call device 18 and the hours when assistance will be available and operable from the 19 vehicle. 20 b. The gasoline station shall not be required to provide the service 21 provided for in paragraph a of this subdivision during times when such 22 station is being operated on a remote control basis by only one employee 23 and a passenger in that vehicle is reasonably capable of dispensing 24 motor fuel. Paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply to gasoline EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03310-01-7S. 3645 2 1 stations that are operated by one cashier and remote control equipment 2 for dispensing motor fuel. 3 c. If an owner owns only one gasoline station in New York state, then 4 that gas station must be in compliance within one year of the effective 5 date of this subdivision. If an owner owns more than one gasoline 6 station in New York state then the owner must make at least fifty 7 percent of those gasoline stations compliant with this subdivision with- 8 in one year of the effective date of this subdivision. In either case 9 the owner must be in compliance within three years of the effective date 10 of this subdivision. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.