Requires food retailers to provide scales for customer use in an accessible location and with a conspicuous sign reading "for customer use".

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S4080-2011 Actions

• Jun 1, 2011: SIGNED CHAP.43
• May 20, 2011: DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
• May 9, 2011: returned to senate
• May 9, 2011: passed assembly
• May 9, 2011: ordered to third reading cal.263
• May 9, 2011: substituted for a6423
• Apr 4, 2011: referred to agriculture
• Apr 4, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Apr 4, 2011: PASSED SENATE
• Mar 28, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Mar 24, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Mar 23, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.261
• Mar 16, 2011: REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

S4080-2011 Meetings

Agriculture: Mar 23, 2011

S4080-2011 Calendars

Active List: Apr 4, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 24, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 28, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 29, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 30, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 31, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Apr 4, 2011

S4080-2011 Votes

S4080-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S4080

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requiring food
retailers to provide scales for customer use

PURPOSE:
To eliminate the thirty foot requirement for computing scales under
section 190.5 of the Agriculture and Markets Law.

SUMMARY:
Section 1 amends Subdivision 5 of Section 190 of the agriculture and
markets law to eliminate the thirty foot requirement for the location
of computing scales.

Section 2 states this act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after
it becomes law.

JUSTIFICATION:
Section 190.5 of the Agriculture and Markets Law was adopted in 1977
to allow consumers to verify the net contents of prepackaged grocery
products by requiring computing scales every thirty feet. Since that
time, the Department has implemented an extensive program whereby
county Consumer Affairs and Weights and Measures inspectors regularly
monitor prepackaged products for short weight violations.

To assist consumers with unpackaged products, food retailers typically
place hanging scales throughout the produce section to enable
consumers to determine the net weight of items they are selecting.
Retailers and local consumers have found that hanging scales are used
regularly and the computing scales receive little use. Mandating
computing scales every thirty feet is unnecessary in today's shopping
environment.

This bill will update the Agriculture and Markets Law to remove the
unnecessary and outdated mandate on food retailers to place a
computing scale every thirty feet within their store. One computing
scale per food store will still be required by law and subject to
current regulations.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the state.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after
it becomes law.

S4080-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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      S. 4080                                                  A. 6423

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                        SENATE - ASSEMBLY

                               March 16, 2011
                                 ___________

  IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered print-
    ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture

  IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to
    the Committee on Agriculture

  AN  ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir-
    ing food retailers to provide scales for customer use

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


    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 190 of the agriculture and markets
  law,  as added by chapter 874 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as
  follows:

    5. Wherever food or food products are packaged or wrapped for sale  by
  a  retailer in advance of being sold, or offered or exposed for sale, an
  accurate computing scale of sufficient  capacity  shall  be  maintained.
  Such  scale  shall  be  [located not more than thirty feet from the pre-
  packaged display and shall be so] placed as to be easily  accessible  to
  customers[. A] AND A prominent and conspicuous sign reading "for custom-
  er use" shall be displayed on or near such scale.
    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
  have become a law.




   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD10201-01-1