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Assembly Bill A5270A

Signed By Governor

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to the number of reverse vending machines required for mandatory acceptance of empty beverage containers

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2011-A5270 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2877
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-1007, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A11690, S8375

2011-A5270 - Summary

Relates to the number of reverse vending machines required for mandatory acceptance of empty beverage containers.

2011-A5270 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5270

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 15, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CANESTRARI  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
  number  of  reverse vending machines required for mandatory acceptance
  of empty beverage containers

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 1 of section 27-1007 of the
environmental conservation law, as added by section  4  of  part  SS  of
chapter 59 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  (b)  Beginning  March first, two thousand ten, a dealer whose place of
business is part of a chain engaged in the same general field  of  busi-
ness  which operates ten or more units in this state under common owner-
ship and whose business [exceeds] HAS AT  LEAST:    (i)  forty  thousand
[square  feet]  but [is] less than sixty thousand square feet DEVOTED TO
THE DISPLAY OF MERCHANDISE FOR SALE TO  THE  PUBLIC  shall  install  and
maintain  at  least [three] TWO reverse vending machines at the dealer's
place of business; (ii) sixty thousand [square feet] but [is] less  than
eighty-five  thousand  square feet DEVOTED TO THE DISPLAY OF MERCHANDISE
FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC shall install and maintain at least [four]  THREE
reverse  vending  machines  at  the dealer's place of business; or (iii)
eighty-five thousand square feet DEVOTED TO THE DISPLAY  OF  MERCHANDISE
FOR  SALE TO THE PUBLIC shall install and maintain at least [eight] FOUR
reverse vending machines at the dealer's place of  business[;  provided,
however,  that  the].  THE requirements of this paragraph to install and
maintain reverse vending machines shall not apply to a dealer that:  (I)
sells  only  refrigerated  beverage  containers of twenty ounces or less
where each beverage container is sold as an individual container that is
not connected to or packaged with any  other  beverage  container;  (II)
SELLS  BEVERAGE  CONTAINERS AND DEVOTES NO MORE THAN FIVE PERCENT OF ITS
FLOOR SPACE TO THE DISPLAY AND SALE OF CONSUMER COMMODITIES, AS  DEFINED

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09051-01-1

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2011-A5270A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2877
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-1007, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A11690, S8375

2011-A5270A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the number of reverse vending machines required for mandatory acceptance of empty beverage containers.

2011-A5270A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 5270--A

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 15, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. CANESTRARI, N. RIVERA -- read once and referred
  to  the  Committee  on   Environmental   Conservation   --   committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
  number of reverse vending machines required for  mandatory  acceptance
  of empty beverage containers

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section  27-1007  of  the
environmental  conservation  law,  as  added  by section 4 of part SS of
chapter 59 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  (b) Beginning March first, two thousand ten, a dealer whose  place  of
business  is  part of a chain engaged in the same general field of busi-
ness which operates ten or more units in this state under common  owner-
ship  and  whose  business  [exceeds] HAS AT LEAST:   (i) forty thousand
[square feet] but [is] less than sixty thousand square feet  DEVOTED  TO
THE  DISPLAY  OF  MERCHANDISE  FOR  SALE TO THE PUBLIC shall install and
maintain at least [three] TWO reverse vending machines at  the  dealer's
place  of business; (ii) sixty thousand [square feet] but [is] less than
eighty-five thousand square feet DEVOTED TO THE DISPLAY  OF  MERCHANDISE
FOR  SALE TO THE PUBLIC shall install and maintain at least [four] THREE
reverse vending machines at the dealer's place  of  business;  or  (iii)
eighty-five  thousand  square feet DEVOTED TO THE DISPLAY OF MERCHANDISE
FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC shall install and maintain at least [eight]  FOUR
reverse  vending  machines at the dealer's place of business[; provided,
however, that the]. THE requirements of [this]  paragraph  (B)  OF  THIS
SUBDIVISION  to  install and maintain reverse vending machines shall not
apply to a dealer that: (I) sells only [refrigerated] beverage  contain-
ers  of  twenty  ounces or less where [each] SUCH beverage [container is
sold as an individual container that is not connected to or]  CONTAINERS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09051-05-1

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