Bill Text: NY S07277 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to requirements for unit pricing in certain non-chain convenience stores.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-17 - SIGNED CHAP.427 [S07277 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07277-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7277
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 2, 2012
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       Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- 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  unit
         pricing
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 214-h of the  agri-
    2  culture  and markets law, as amended by chapter 323 of the laws of 1993,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    b. The provisions of this  section  shall  not  apply  TO  CONVENIENCE
    5  STORES  WHICH  INCLUDE  SMALL  STORES  WHICH  TYPICALLY SELL MOTOR FUEL,
    6  TOBACCO PRODUCTS, FAST FOOD AND BEVERAGES AND DO  NOT  OFFER  SUFFICIENT
    7  QUANTITY  OF CONSUMER COMMODITIES TO MAKE UNIT PRICING USEFUL TO CONSUM-
    8  ERS OR to any retail store having had annual  gross  sales  of  consumer
    9  commodities  in the previous calendar year of less than two and one-half
   10  million dollars, UNLESS THE STORE IS A PART  OF  A  NETWORK  OF  SUBSID-
   11  IARIES,  AFFILIATES  OR  OTHER  MEMBER  STORES, UNDER DIRECT OR INDIRECT
   12  COMMON CONTROL, WHICH, AS A GROUP, HAD ANNUAL GROSS SALES  THE  PREVIOUS
   13  CALENDAR  YEAR  OF  TWO AND ONE-HALF MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE OF CONSUMER
   14  COMMODITIES.
   15    S 2.  This act shall take   effect on the one  hundred  eightieth  day
   16  after it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14958-01-2
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