What's happening
The bill requires all carting company waste containers to have highly reflective material for increased visibility, with penalties for noncompliance.
Why it matters
Improves road safety. By requiring highly reflective material on all sides and ends of waste containers, the bill aims to make these large, sometimes poorly-lit obstacles more visible to drivers, potentially reducing nighttime accidents and property damage.
Sets clear standards for compliance. The bill specifies not just the requirement for reflective material, but also the minimum size (seventy-two contiguous square inches per side/end) and placement for maximum visibility, making enforcement and compliance straightforward.
Introduces financial penalties as enforcement. With civil penalties up to $1,000 for violations, the bill provides a tangible incentive for carting companies to upgrade their containers and prioritize public safety.
Targets a range of container sizes. By listing both bucket load and roll-off container types (from two-yard to forty-yard sizes), the legislation ensures that the safety measure covers nearly all commercial waste receptacles used at curbsides, addressing a broad potential risk.
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Make Garbage Bins Reflective
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7259
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring reflective material on carting company containers
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 392-k to read as follows:
§ 392-k. Carting company containers. 1. All solid waste carting company containers for use at curbside, including but not limited to the two yard, four yard, six yard and eight yard bucket load type, and the ten yard, twenty yard, thirty yard and forty yard roll-off type, shall have a minimum of seventy-two contiguous square inches of highly reflective material affixed to each side and end of the container at a height which maximizes visibility to automobile drivers when reflected from their headlights. Roll-off containers shall have two dispersed seventy-two square inch patches of such reflective material affixed to the long sides of this type container.
2. Any violation of this section by a carting company shall be punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars.
§ 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.
LBD03521-01-7
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