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- Signed chap.43
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.263
- Substituted for A6423
- Referred to agriculture
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.261
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- Referred to agriculture
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Requires food retailers to provide scales for customer use
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor William Magee
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BILL NUMBER:S4080
Title of bill
An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requiring food retailers to provide scales for customer use
Purpose
To eliminate the thirty foot requirement for computing scales under section 190.5 of the Agriculture and Markets Law.
Summary
Section 1 amends Subdivision 5 of Section 190 of the agriculture and markets law to eliminate the thirty foot requirement for the location of computing scales.
Section 2 states this act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it becomes law.
Justification
Section 190.5 of the Agriculture and Markets Law was adopted in 1977 to allow consumers to verify the net contents of prepackaged grocery products by requiring computing scales every thirty feet. Since that time, the Department has implemented an extensive program whereby county Consumer Affairs and Weights and Measures inspectors regularly monitor prepackaged products for short weight violations.
To assist consumers with unpackaged products, food retailers typically place hanging scales throughout the produce section to enable consumers to determine the net weight of items they are selecting. Retailers and local consumers have found that hanging scales are used regularly and the computing scales receive little use. Mandating computing scales every thirty feet is unnecessary in today's shopping environment.
This bill will update the Agriculture and Markets Law to remove the unnecessary and outdated mandate on food retailers to place a computing scale every thirty feet within their store. One computing scale per food store will still be required by law and subject to current regulations.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it becomes law.
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