Assembly Bill A10872

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires identification of practices most susceptible to threats from dumping out of state products

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A10872 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7656
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §160-v, Ag & Mkts L

2009-A10872 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires identification of practices most susceptible to threats from dumping out of state products.

2009-A10872 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10872 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10872

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 27, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE, CROUCH, RABBITT -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Agriculture

AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
  dumping of certain agricultural products

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  160-v  of  the  agriculture  and
markets  law, as added by chapter 668 of the laws of 2007, is amended to
read as follows:
  1. No person,  firm,  partnership,  corporation  or  association  that
sells,  offers  for  sale or distributes any food product shall dump, or
otherwise discard in a manner reasonably and causally connected  to  the
contamination of food, any cull or waste pile consisting of any agricul-
tural product not produced in this state, including, but not limited to,
vegetables,  fruits  and  other  like produce falling below the official
standard or grade of quality for such product. After  consultation  with
the  New  York state college of agriculture and life sciences at Cornell
university, the commissioner shall IDENTIFY ESTABLISHMENTS AND PRACTICES
MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO THREATS FROM OUT OF STATE PRODUCTS,  AND  promulgate
rules  and regulations for the proper disposal of any such cull or waste
pile IN SUCH CASES, provided that such regulations include  options  for
landfill disposal, composting and deep burial.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17025-01-0

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