Assembly Bill A8958

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale of unsafe baby cribs

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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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2013-A8958 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6250
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §399-i, Gen Bus L

2013-A8958 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale of unsafe baby cribs; removes the provision that the office of children and family services shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions.

2013-A8958 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8958

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 4, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the prohibition
  of the sale of unsafe cribs

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

  Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph  (f)  of  subdivision  1  of
section  399-i of the general business law, as amended by chapter 381 of
the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  (iv) The following standards and specifications of ASTM  International
for  corner  posts  of baby cribs and structural integrity of baby cribs
and any standards and specifications adopted to amend or supplement such
standards:
  (A) [ASTM F 966 (corner post standard),
  (B)] ASTM F 1169 (structural integrity of full-size baby cribs), and
  [(C)] (B) ASTM F 406 (non-full-size cribs).
  S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 399-i of the general  business  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  381  of  the  laws  of 2013, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. (a) On or after December twenty-eighth, two thousand  thirteen,  no
child  care  facility or place of public accommodation shall use or have
on the premises an unsafe crib. This subdivision shall not apply  to  an
antique  or collectible crib if it is not used by, or accessible to, any
child in the child care facility or place of public accommodation.
  (b) The office of children and family services, in  consultation  with
the  New York city department of health and mental hygiene, shall notify
child care facilities of the provisions of this  subdivision  in  plain,
non-technical  language  that  will  enable  each child care facility to
effectively inspect and identify unsafe  cribs.  Such  notice  shall  be
given  to  every  child  care  facility  upon the effective date of this
[article] SECTION or as soon as practicable thereafter, and such  notice
shall also be given to each applicant for license or registration pursu-
ant to section three hundred ninety of the social services law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11993-03-4

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