A6318-2011 Actions

• Apr 14, 2011: reference changed to consumer affairs and protection
• Mar 14, 2011: referred to health

A6318-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         6318
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 March 14, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. SPANO, M. MILLER, JAFFEE, N. RIVERA, DINOWITZ,
 MARKEY, ROSENTHAL, CASTRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  JEFFRIES,
 McLAUGHLIN, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the disposal of
 bedding
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 389-d to read as follows:

 

S 389-D. DISPOSAL OF BEDDING.   1. EACH  PIECE  OF  BEDDING  SHALL  BE
 ENCLOSED  IN A PROTECTIVE CONTAINER PRIOR TO ITS REMOVAL FROM A PREMISES
 WHERE IT WAS USED AND DURING ITS DISPOSAL; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT  THE
 PROVISIONS  OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY MATTRESS WITHIN A
 CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
 2. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "PROTECTIVE CONTAINER" MEANS  ANY  PROTEC
 TIVE  DEVICE,  MATERIAL, OBJECT OR COVERING WHICH FULLY ENCASES OR WRAPS
 BEDDING.
 3. ANY VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A CIVIL PENAL
 TY OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS PAYABLE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09497-01-1

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