Requires full service gas station service to be provided to senior citizens and to persons with disabilities with a disabled license plate or hang tag at no additional cost where the retail full service station offers both self service and full service sales; provides civil penalties of up to $100 for violation thereof.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9964
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 2, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale of
motor fuels to senior citizens and persons with disabilities
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
199-o to read as follows:
S 199-O. SALE OF MOTOR FUELS TO SENIOR CITIZENS AND PERSONS WITH DISA-
BILITIES. 1. ANY PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION WHICH REGULARLY DEALS IN
THE RETAIL SALE OF MOTOR FUELS TO CONSUMERS, OFFERING BOTH SELF-SERVICE
AND FULL SERVICE AT ANY INDIVIDUAL STATION, SHALL PROVIDE FULL SERVICE
OF SUCH MOTOR FUELS, INCLUDING ANY SERVICES REASONABLY NECESSARY, TO
PERSONS SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AND ANY PERSONS WITH DISABILI-
TIES AT THE SAME PRICE CHARGED AT THE SELF-SERVICE ISLANDS.
2. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY AS LONG AS THE INDIVID-
UAL STATION IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION "PERSON WITH DISABILITIES" SHALL
MEAN THE REGISTERED OWNER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WHO HAS BEEN ISSUED SPECIAL
LICENSE TAGS BY THE STATE OR WHO DISPLAYS A HANDICAPPED CARD OR INSIGNIA
ISSUED BY A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY PURSUANT TO SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-A
OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
4. ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE
GUILTY OF A VIOLATION AND SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL FINE IN AN AMOUNT
UP TO ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08607-01-5
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