STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5941 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 8, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. VALESKY -- 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 a reduced food processing license fee for small-scale food processors The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 251-z-3 of the agriculture and markets law is 2 amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to read as follows: 3 Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an applicant 4 that is a "small-scale processor" shall pay a license fee of one hundred 5 seventy-five dollars per facility. For the purposes of this section, a 6 "small-scale processor" shall be defined as a processor which operates a 7 food processing establishment that is not exempt from licensing pursuant 8 to section two hundred fifty-one-z-four of this article, is not a chain 9 store, and employs no more than ten full time employees. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 11 law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amend- 12 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 13 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to 14 be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04729-03-7