STATE OF NEW YORK
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5363
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. VOLKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to elim-
inating the requirement that bottlers and brewers must include a New
York specific universal product code on all redeemable bottles and
cans and to extend the start date of registering container labels
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 27-1012 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as added by section 8 of part SS of chapter 59 of the
3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
4 12. Beginning on [June] January first, two thousand [nine] ten each
5 deposit initiator shall register the container label of any beverage
6 offered for sale in the state on which it initiates a deposit. Any such
7 registered container label shall bear a universal product code. [Such
8 universal product code shall be New York state specific, in order to
9 identify the beverage container as offered for sale exclusively in New
10 York state, and as a means of preventing illegal redemption of beverage
11 containers purchased out-of-state.] Registration must be on forms as
12 prescribed by the department and must include the universal product code
13 for each combination of beverage and container manufactured. The commis-
14 sioner may require that such forms be filed electronically. The deposit
15 initiator shall renew a label registration whenever that label is
16 revised by altering the universal product code or whenever the container
17 on which it appears is changed in size, composition or glass color.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11428-01-9
