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Assembly Bill A2493A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at certain veterans' organization facilities

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2013-A2493 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2962
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9708, S6414
2015-2016: A909, S2495
2017-2018: A2795, S3072
2019-2020: A1810, S3106
2021-2022: S351
2023-2024: S1811
2025-2026: S1188

2013-A2493 - Summary

Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at congressionally chartered veterans' organization facilities.

2013-A2493 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2493

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring a one
  hundred  twenty-day  warning  period for certain violations at certain
  veterans' organization facilities

  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.  WARNING  PERIOD FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS AT CERTAIN VETERANS'
ORGANIZATION FACILITIES. 1. BEFORE ANY MONETARY FINES OR  PENALTIES  ARE
ISSUED  OR APPLIED TO THE OWNER OR OPERATOR OF ANY PLACE, POST, FACILITY
OR HALL OWNED OR  OPERATED  BY  A  CONGRESSIONALLY  CHARTERED  VETERANS'
GROUP,  A  WARNING  PERIOD  OF  ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS SHALL TAKE PLACE
DURING WHICH TIME SUCH GROUP SHALL BE ABLE TO CURE SUCH VIOLATION.   IF,
AT THE END OF SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY PERIOD, SUCH VIOLATION CONTIN-
UES,  THEN A MONETARY FINE OR PENALTY MAY BE ISSUED OR APPLIED PROVIDED,
THAT AFTER SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY PERIOD, SUCH VETERANS'  ORGANIZA-
TION  MAY  REQUEST  AN  EXTENSION  OF TIME TO CURE SUCH VIOLATION.  SUCH
REQUEST SHALL BE MADE IN WRITING AND SHALL INCLUDE PROOF OF  AN  ATTEMPT
TO CURE SUCH VIOLATION WITHIN SUCH PERIOD.
  2.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "CONGRESSIONALLY CHAR-
TERED VETERANS' GROUP" SHALL MEAN ANY  VETERANS'  GROUP  THAT  HAS  BEEN
CHARTERED  BY  THE  UNITED  STATES CONGRESS UNDER TITLE 36 OF THE UNITED
STATES CODE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01064-01-3

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2013-A2493A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2962
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9708, S6414
2015-2016: A909, S2495
2017-2018: A2795, S3072
2019-2020: A1810, S3106
2021-2022: S351
2023-2024: S1811
2025-2026: S1188

2013-A2493A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at congressionally chartered veterans' organization facilities.

2013-A2493A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 2493--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Veterans'  Affairs  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring a one
  hundred twenty-day warning period for certain  violations  at  certain
  veterans' organization facilities

  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. WARNING PERIOD FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS  AT  CERTAIN  VETERANS'
ORGANIZATION  FACILITIES.  1.  BEFORE  ANY  MONETARY FINES ARE ISSUED OR
APPLIED BY ANY MUNICIPAL OR HEALTH AGENCY TO THE OWNER  OR  OPERATOR  OF
ANY PLACE, POST, FACILITY OR HALL OWNED OR OPERATED BY A CONGRESSIONALLY
CHARTERED  VETERANS'  GROUP, A WARNING PERIOD OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS
SHALL TAKE PLACE DURING WHICH TIME SUCH GROUP SHALL BE ABLE TO CURE SUCH
VIOLATION.  IF, AT THE END OF SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY  PERIOD,  SUCH
VIOLATION  CONTINUES,  THEN  A  MONETARY  FINE  MAY BE ISSUED OR APPLIED
PROVIDED, THAT AFTER SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY PERIOD, SUCH  VETERANS'
ORGANIZATION  MAY  REQUEST  AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO CURE SUCH VIOLATION.
SUCH REQUEST SHALL BE MADE IN WRITING AND  SHALL  INCLUDE  PROOF  OF  AN
ATTEMPT  TO  CURE  SUCH VIOLATION WITHIN SUCH PERIOD.  THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS SECTION SHALL NOT: (A)  APPLY  TO  ANY  IMMINENT  LIFE  THREATENING
BUILDING  CODE  OR HEALTH CODE VIOLATION WHICH NECESSITATES AN EMERGENCY
CLOSURE OF A FACILITY; OR (B) BE CONSTRUED TO APPLY  TO  OR  EFFECT  ANY
VIOLATION OF THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW MADE BY A FACILITY.
  2.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "CONGRESSIONALLY CHAR-
TERED VETERANS' GROUP" SHALL MEAN ANY  VETERANS'  GROUP  THAT  HAS  BEEN
CHARTERED  BY  THE  UNITED  STATES CONGRESS UNDER TITLE 36 OF THE UNITED
STATES CODE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.

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

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