What's happening
This bill requires a 120-day warning period before municipal or health agency fines can be issued to congressionally chartered veterans’ organizations for certain violations, with exceptions for emergencies and alcohol law violations.
Why it matters
Gives congressionally chartered veterans’ organizations extra time (120 days) to address and fix non-emergency code or health violations before facing fines. , which could help protect limited resources and allow these groups to remain focused on serving veterans.
Ensures that veterans’ organizations are not penalized immediately for minor or non-urgent infractions. , potentially reducing the financial burden and administrative disruptions that can follow surprise fines from local or health authorities.
Includes safeguards for public safety by exempting violations that pose imminent life-threatening risks or involve alcohol laws. , which means the rule change won’t delay critical enforcement in cases where health, safety, or public order is at stake.
May encourage more collaborative relationships between veterans’ organizations and regulatory agencies. , as the law requires organizations to show proof of attempts to fix violations and allows for possible extensions, fostering communication and problem-solving rather than immediate punishment.
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Who cares
Congressionally chartered veterans' groups
Their facilities would receive a 120-day warning period to cure covered violations before municipal or health agencies could impose monetary fines.
Veterans' facility owners and operators
They could request additional time after the warning period by submitting a written request with proof of an attempt to correct the violation.
Municipal and health enforcement agencies
They would have to delay covered fines, but imminent life-threatening building or health code violations requiring emergency closure and alcoholic beverage control law violations would remain outside the warning requirement.
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Warn Veterans’ Halls Before Fines
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History
- Referred to veterans' affairs
- Referred to veterans' affairs
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.
Give Veterans' Clubs Warning First
In Assembly Committee · Veterans' Affairs · Sponsor Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2795
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring a one hundred twenty-day warning period for certain violations at certain veterans' organization facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 397-b to read as follows:
§ 397-b. Warning period for certain violations at certain veterans' organization facilities. 1. Before any monetary fines are issued or applied by any municipal or health agency to the owner or operator of any place, post, facility or hall owned or operated by a congressionally chartered veterans' group, a warning period of one hundred twenty days shall take place during which time such group shall be able to cure such violation. If, at the end of such one hundred twenty-day period, such violation continues, then a monetary fine may be issued or applied provided, that after such one hundred twenty-day period, such veterans' organization may request an extension of time to cure such violation. Such request shall be made in writing and shall include proof of an attempt to cure such violation within such period. The provisions of this section shall not: (a) apply to any imminent life threatening building code or health code violation which necessitates an emergency closure of a facility; or (b) be construed to apply to or effect any violation of the alcoholic beverage control law made by a facility.
2. For the purposes of this section, the term "congressionally chartered veterans' group" shall mean any veterans' group that has been chartered by the United States Congress under title 36 of the United States code.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02745-01-7
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