Bill Text: NY S04494 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases penalties associated with the packaging, sale or certification of kosher foods; increases first violation from one thousand dollars to two thousand five hundred dollars; increases second violation from five thousand dollars to seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-08-01 - SIGNED CHAP.304 [S04494 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S04494-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4494 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 7, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas- ing penalties associated with the packaging, sale or certification of kosher foods THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 201-c of the agriculture and 2 markets law, as added by chapter 151 of the laws of 2004, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 6. Failure to comply with the requirements of sections two hundred 5 one-a and two hundred one-b of this article and this section or the 6 failure to conform sales practices to the information provided in the 7 kosher certification form pursuant to this section shall be punishable 8 by a fine of not more than [one] TWO thousand FIVE HUNDRED dollars for a 9 first violation; not more than [five] SEVEN thousand FIVE HUNDRED 10 dollars for a second violation; and not more than ten thousand dollars 11 for a third violation and each subsequent violation thereafter. 12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth 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. LBD10123-01-1