Bill Text: NY S05110 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5110 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to municipal directors of weights and measures, permitting the county of Westchester to designate its commissioner or director of consumer affairs as its director of weights and measures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - SIGNED CHAP.350 [S05110 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05110-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5110
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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  munici-
          pal directors of weights and measures
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 180 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law, as amended by section 1 of part EE of chapter 56  of  the  laws  of
     3  2010, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  There  shall  be a county director of weights and measures in each
     5  county, except where (a) a county is wholly embraced within a city there
     6  shall be a city director of weights and measures, or (b)  where  two  or
     7  more counties have entered into an intermunicipal agreement, pursuant to
     8  article  five-G  of  the  general municipal law, to share the functions,
     9  powers, and duties of one director of weights and measures.  Any  county
    10  or  city  having a population of one million or more may elect to desig-
    11  nate its commissioner of consumer affairs as its director of weights and
    12  measures. The county of Westchester may elect to designate  its  commis-
    13  sioner  or  director  of consumer affairs as its director of weights and
    14  measures. Subdivision four of this section shall not apply to a  commis-
    15  sioner or director of consumer affairs so designated.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01126-03-9