Bill Text: NY S07846 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires operators of petting zoos to maintain hand washing or hand cleansing facilities for persons attending such petting zoos within no more than fifty feet of the exit from the petting zoo area; and requires other public establishments featuring animals that patrons may reasonably come in contact with to provide hand washing or hand cleansing facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4735A [S07846 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07846-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7846
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 13, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LIBOUS -- 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 and the public health  law,  in
         relation  to  requiring  operators  of  petting  zoos and other public
         establishments featuring animals to  maintain  hand  washing  or  hand
         cleansing facilities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
    2  399-ff to read as follows:
    3    S 399-FF. PETTING ZOOS. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION THE TERMS:
    4    (A) "PETTING ZOO" SHALL MEAN A PLACE WHERE A COLLECTION OF ANIMALS ARE
    5  KEPT FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF VIEWING, TOUCHING, HOLDING  AND  PETTING
    6  BY PATRONS AND VISITORS TO THE ESTABLISHMENT; AND
    7    (B) "HAND WASHING OR HAND CLEANSING FACILITY" SHALL MEAN ANY METHOD OF
    8  CLEANSING  THE  HANDS  THAT  KILLS GERMS AND BACTERIA INCLUDING, BUT NOT
    9  LIMITED TO, SOAP AND RUNNING  WATER,  ANTI-BACTERIAL  FLUIDS,  FOAMS  OR
   10  GELS, AND ANTI-BACTERIAL OR ANTISEPTIC WIPES OR TOWELS.
   11    2.  ALL  PETTING ZOO OPERATORS SHALL PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN AT LEAST ONE
   12  CLEARLY DESIGNATED HAND WASHING FACILITY FOR PATRONS AND VISITORS TO THE
   13  ESTABLISHMENT TO WASH OR CLEANSE THEIR HANDS UPON EXITING  SUCH  PETTING
   14  ZOO  AREA.   SUCH HAND WASHING OR HAND CLEANSING FACILITY SHALL BE MAIN-
   15  TAINED AT OR WITHIN NO MORE THAN  FIFTY  FEET  OF  THE  EXIT  FROM  SUCH
   16  PETTING ZOO AREA.
   17    3.  EVERY EXIT FROM A PETTING ZOO AREA SHALL HAVE A SIGN CONSPICUOUSLY
   18  POSTED THAT SHALL STATE, IN A CLEAR AND LEGIBLE TYPEFACE, THE FOLLOWING:
   19  "ANIMALS AT PETTING  ZOOS  MAY  CARRY  GERMS  AND  BACTERIA  THAT  CAUSE
   20  DISEASE.  IT  IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT PERSONS WASH THEIR HANDS UPON
   21  EXITING THE PETTING ZOO AREA". SUCH SIGN SHALL ALSO INDICATE THE  DIREC-
   22  TION IN WHICH SUCH HAND WASHING OR HAND CLEANSING FACILITY IS LOCATED.
   23    4.  ANY OPERATOR OF A PETTING ZOO WHO FAILS TO MAINTAIN A HAND WASHING
   24  OR HAND CLEANSING FACILITY AND  PROPER  SIGNAGE  IN  VIOLATION  OF  THIS
   25  SECTION  SHALL  BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY IN AN AMOUNT OF UP TO FIVE
   26  HUNDRED DOLLARS.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00083-03-4
       S. 7846                             2
    1    S 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 1311  to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S  1311.  HAND  WASHING  FACILITIES  AT  CERTAIN PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS
    4  FEATURING ANIMALS. 1.  ALL  PUBLIC  ESTABLISHMENTS  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
    5  LIMITED  TO,  CARNIVALS,  FAIRS  AND  AMUSEMENT PARKS, AS SUCH TERMS ARE
    6  DEFINED IN SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY-C OF THE LABOR LAW, FARMS,  AND
    7  FARMERS'  MARKETS,  AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO HUNDRED SIXTY
    8  OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS  LAW,  WHICH  FEATURE  DISPLAYS  OF  LIVE
    9  ANIMALS  THAT  PATRONS  MAY REASONABLY BE EXPECTED TO COME INTO PHYSICAL
   10  CONTACT WITH FOR THE PURPOSE  OF  TOUCHING,  HOLDING  OR  PETTING  SHALL
   11  PROVIDE HAND WASHING OR HAND CLEANSING FACILITIES FOR SUCH PATRONS. HAND
   12  WASHING  OR  HAND  CLEANSING  FACILITIES  MAY  BE TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT
   13  FIXTURES AND SHALL INCLUDE ONE  OR  MORE  OF  THE  FOLLOWING:  SOAP  AND
   14  RUNNING  WATER;  ANTI-BACTERIAL FLUIDS, FOAMS OR GELS; OR ANTI-BACTERIAL
   15  OR ANTISEPTIC WIPES OR TOWELS.
   16    2. SIGNS SHALL BE CONSPICUOUSLY POSTED AND SHALL STATE IN A CLEAR  AND
   17  LEGIBLE  TYPEFACE,  THE FOLLOWING: "ANIMALS MAY CARRY GERMS AND BACTERIA
   18  THAT CAN CAUSE DISEASE  TO  PEOPLE.  IT  IS  STRONGLY  RECOMMENDED  THAT
   19  PERSONS  WASH  OR CLEANSE THEIR HANDS AFTER TOUCHING, HOLDING OR PETTING
   20  THE ANIMALS." SUCH SIGNS SHALL ALSO INDICATE WHERE THE HAND  WASHING  OR
   21  HAND CLEANSING FACILITY IS LOCATED.
   22    3.  THE  COMMISSIONER  MAY  MAKE  RULES GUARDING AGAINST THE SPREAD OF
   23  BACTERIA AND VIRUSES AT PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS THAT  FEATURE  ANIMALS  AS
   24  PROVIDED  IN  SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, TO PERSONS EMPLOYED AT OR
   25  TO PATRONS OF SUCH ESTABLISHMENTS WHERE SUCH ESTABLISHMENTS ARE  LOCATED
   26  OUTSIDE  THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND WHERE SUCH ESTABLISHMENTS ARE LOCATED
   27  WITHIN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC  HEALTH  OF  THE
   28  CITY OF NEW YORK MAY MAKE AND ENFORCE SUCH RULES.
   29    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   30  it shall have become a law.