Bill Text: NY S08729 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires restaurants that offer online delivery services to post their most recent sanitary inspection grade on their website and/or any internet-based food delivery service websites where consumers can order from such food service establishment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-14 - PRINT NUMBER 8729C [S08729 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08729-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8729--B
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and  the
          general municipal law, in relation to requiring restaurants that offer
          online delivery services to post their most recent sanitary inspection
          letter grade on their website
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
     2  by adding a new section 17-195.1 to read as follows:
     3    §  17-195.1  Posting  of  sanitary  inspection  grade.  a. Definition.
     4  "Internet-based food delivery service  provider"  shall  mean  any  food
     5  service  establishment as defined in section 81.03 of the health code of
     6  the city of New York that accepts food orders for delivery from  custom-
     7  ers  via  the  internet,  or  any  third-party website that accepts food
     8  orders for delivery from customers via the internet.
     9    b. Every internet-based food delivery service provider shall conspicu-
    10  ously post on their website the most current sanitary inspection  letter
    11  grade  of  any  food service establishment, pursuant to section 81.51 of
    12  the health code of the  city  of  New  York,  for  which  food  delivery
    13  services are provided to customers.
    14    c.  Any  internet-based  food  delivery service provider that violates
    15  subdivision b of this section or any of the rules promulgated thereunder
    16  shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed  one  hundred  dollars
    17  for each violation.
    18    §  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    19  139-e to read as follows:
    20    § 139-e. Posting of sanitary inspection grade.  1.  As  used  in  this
    21  section  "internet-based  food delivery service provider" shall mean any
    22  food service establishment that accepts food orders  for  delivery  from
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11238-12-8
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     1  customers via the internet, or any third party website that accepts food
     2  orders for delivery from customers via the internet.
     3    2.  In  any municipal corporation that has adopted a local law or rule
     4  requiring the posting of sanitary inspection  results,  every  internet-
     5  based  food  delivery service provider shall conspicuously post on their
     6  website the most current sanitary inspection results of any food service
     7  establishment located in  such  municipal  corporation  for  which  food
     8  delivery services are provided to customers.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.