Assembly Bill A10506

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires department stores to clearly display directional exit signs

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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-A10506 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง390-e, Gen Bus L

2009-A10506 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires department stores in shopping malls to clearly display signs directing customers towards the exits when exits cannot be seen throughout such stores.

2009-A10506 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10506 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10506

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 2, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. MARKEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Consumer Affairs and Protection

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring shop-
  ping  mall  department stores to post directional signs indicating the
  direction of travel to the nearest exit

  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
390-e to read as follows:
  S  390-E.  DEPARTMENT  STORE EXIT SIGNAGE. 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION,
THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
  (A) "DEPARTMENT STORE" MEANS ANY RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT  IN  A  SHOPPING
MALL CONSISTING OF TWENTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OR MORE.
  (B)  "SHOPPING  MALL"  MEANS ANY PRIVATELY OWNED BUILDING OR SERIES OF
BUILDINGS HOUSING TWENTY OR MORE RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS AND OFFERING  FOR
LEASE  A  TOTAL  OF  FIFTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OR MORE OF RETAIL SPACE,
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER VACANT OR NOT.
  2. THE OWNER OR LESSEE OF  ANY  DEPARTMENT  STORE  SHALL  POST,  WHERE
DOORS,  OPENINGS OR PASSAGEWAYS GIVING ACCESS TO ANY MEANS OF EGRESS ARE
NOT VISIBLE FROM ALL  PORTIONS  OF  SUCH  STORE,  DIRECTIONAL  SIGNS  IN
CONSPICUOUS  LOCATIONS, INDICATING IN RED ON A WHITE BACKGROUND, OR VICE
VERSA, THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL TO THE NEAREST MEANS OF EGRESS.
  3. THE OWNER OR OPERATOR OF  ANY  DEPARTMENT  STORE  FOUND  TO  BE  IN
VIOLATION  OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO
EXCEED SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS PER VIOLATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD16450-02-0

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