Assembly Bill A9964

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires full retail fuel services to senior citizens and to persons with disabilities where self-service and full service is offered

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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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2015-A9964 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §199-o, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3882
2011-2012: A2722
2013-2014: A3065

2015-A9964 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2015-A9964 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9964

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 2, 2016
                               ___________

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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