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Assembly Bill A10009

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to a reduced food processing license fee for small-scale food processors

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2015-A10009 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง251-z-3, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A823

2015-A10009 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to a reduced food processing license fee for small-scale food processors; defines a small-scale producer as a processor with less than three individual locations operating processing kitchens and packaging areas of less than one thousand square feet at each location and sets the license fee at one hundred seventy-five dollars.

2015-A10009 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10009

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 4, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Agriculture

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  agriculture  and  markets law, in relation to a
  reduced food processing license fee for small-scale food producers

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

  Section  1.  Section  251-z-3  of  the  agriculture and markets law is
amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
  NOTWITHSTANDING THE PRECEDING, AN APPLICANT  THAT  IS  A  "SMALL-SCALE
PRODUCER"  SHALL  PAY  A LICENSE FEE OF ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS
PER FACILITY. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, A "SMALL-SCALE PRODUC-
ER" SHALL BE DEFINED AS A PROCESSOR  WITH  LESS  THAN  THREE  INDIVIDUAL
LOCATIONS OPERATING PROCESSING KITCHENS AND PACKAGING AREAS OF LESS THAN
ONE THOUSAND SQUARE FEET AT EACH LOCATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14988-01-6

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