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Assembly Bill A2434

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires apples and apple products treated with daminozide to be labelled

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2013-A2434 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1395
2011-2012: A3845
2015-2016: A5200

2013-A2434 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires sellers of apples and apple products treated with daminozide to be so labelled.

2013-A2434 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2434

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to  requiring  the
  labeling  of apples and apple products offered for sale indicating the
  use of daminozide

  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
397-b to read as follows:
  S  397-B.  LABELING  OF  APPLES AND APPLE PRODUCTS. 1. NO PERSON SHALL
SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE ANY APPLES OR APPLE PRODUCTS UNLESS  THERE  IS  A
SIGN  POSTED  ABOVE OR AFFIXED TO THE DISPLAY STAND STATING WHETHER SUCH
APPLES OFFERED FOR SALE OR THE APPLES USED IN  THE  PRODUCTION  OF  SUCH
APPLE  PRODUCTS  HAVE  BEEN  TREATED WITH DAMINOZIDE. SUCH SIGN SHALL BE
CONSPICUOUSLY POSTED WITH LETTERING  NO  SMALLER  THAN  FOUR  INCHES  IN
HEIGHT.
  2.  ANY PERSON WHO SUPPLIES APPLES OR APPLE PRODUCTS TO ANOTHER PERSON
FOR SALE AT RETAIL SHALL INCLUDE IN EACH DELIVERY, A CERTIFICATION ON  A
FORM  PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS WHETHER SUCH
APPLES WERE TREATED WITH DAMINOZIDE.
  3. ANY PERSON WHO SELLS  OR  OFFERS  FOR  SALE  ANY  APPLES  OR  APPLE
PRODUCTS  IN VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY
OF A MISDEMEANOR.
  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.
                                                           LBD05883-01-3

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