Senate Bill S7656

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-S7656 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10872
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §160-v, Ag & Mkts L

2009-S7656 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2009-S7656 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7656 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7656

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 29, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. AUBERTINE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed 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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