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Assembly Bill A6315

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for the offering of special menus printed in 18 point bold font type, with suitable ink/paper contrast, for visually impaired patrons of restaurants

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2009-A6315 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง296, Exec L

2009-A6315 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the offering of special menus printed in 18 point bold font type, with suitable ink/paper contrast, for visually impaired patrons of restaurants; provides that compliance with this provision will satisfy applicable provisions of the Human Rights Law; defines "restaurant".

2009-A6315 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6315

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 2, 2009
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to menus for the visually
  impaired

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of  section  296  of  the  executive  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
  (F)  (1)  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF PARA-
GRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION INSOFAR AS  THEY  PROHIBIT  DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED BY RESTAURANTS, THE OFFERING, UPON REQUEST
THEREFOR, OF A CURRENT MENU PRINTED IN NOT LESS THAN EIGHTEEN POINT BOLD
FONT  TYPE USING A PAPER AND INK COLOR COMBINATION PROVIDING CONTRAST BY
MEANS OF, OR SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF,  BLACK  INK  ON  WHITE
PAPER  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  TO CONSTITUTE COMPLIANCE.   IN LIEU THEREOF, A
PHOTOCOPIED ENLARGEMENT OF THE MENU, RENDERING THE PRINT TO APPROXIMATE-
LY EIGHTEEN POINTS, MAY BE USED. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH  SHALL
NOT BE CONSTRUED TO APPLY TO DAILY SPECIALS.
  (2)  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE TERM "RESTAURANT" MEANS A
PLACE WHERE FOOD IS SOLD FOR CONSUMPTION ON THE  PREMISES,  WHICH  PLACE
OCCUPIES  FIXED  PREMISES  AND  OFFERS  FIXED  AND ENCLOSED PREMISES FOR
DINING.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09463-01-9

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