What's happening
This bill empowers the attorney general to enforce regulations and seek injunctions and penalties against unlawful household goods carriers.
Why it matters
Expands the attorney general’s authority to act against moving companies. The bill lets the attorney general independently investigate and take legal action against household goods carriers suspected of violating regulations, even if no consumer has proven harm yet.
Allows for court-ordered injunctions without proof of injury. Courts can halt unlawful practices by moving companies based on regulatory violations alone, without needing to show that anyone has actually been harmed, making preventative enforcement easier.
Introduces financial consequences for violators. The legislation empowers courts to impose civil penalties (up to $1,000 per violation) and order restitution, increasing the financial risks for companies that break the rules.
Enhances investigatory powers. The attorney general is given explicit authority to collect evidence, determine facts, and issue subpoenas in these cases, strengthening their ability to build enforcement actions.
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Crack Down on Rogue Movers
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History
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.442
- Rules report cal.442
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Print number 2015a
- Amend (t) and recommit to codes
- Referred to codes
- Referred to codes
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Enforce Moving Company Rules
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Andrew J. Lanza
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2015--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the enforcement of provisions relating to carriers of household goods by motor vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section 198-a to read as follows:
§ 198-a. Enforcement. The department shall enforce this article and any provision of any authorized rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to this article provided that the attorney general, in response to a complaint from a consumer, at the request of the commissioner, or on the attorney general's own initiative, may seek equitable relief to restrain any violation or threatened violation of section one hundred ninety-one of this article or any provision of any authorized rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to such section. Whenever there shall be a violation or threatened violation of section one hundred ninety-one of this article or any provision of any authorized rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to such section, an application may be made by the attorney general in the name of the people of the state of New York to a court or justice having jurisdiction, by a special proceeding, seeking an injunction to enjoin and restrain the continuance of such violation or threatened violation; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court or justice that the defendant has, in fact, violated section one hundred ninety-one of this article or any provision of any authorized rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to such section, an injunction may be issued by the court or justice, enjoining and restraining
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any further violations, without requiring proof that any person has, in fact, been injured or damaged thereby.
In any such proceeding, the court may make allowances to the attorney general as provided in paragraph six of subdivision (a) of section eighty-three hundred three of the civil practice law and rules, and direct restitution. Whenever the court shall determine that a violation of section one hundred ninety-one of this article or any provision of any authorized rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to section one hundred ninety-one of this article has occurred, the court may also impose a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each violation. In connection with any such proposed application, the attorney general is authorized to take proof and make a determination of the relevant facts and to issue subpoenas in accordance with the civil practice law and rules.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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