STATE OF NEW YORK
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4410
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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
beverage container handling fees paid to dealers or operators of
redemption centers; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 27-1007 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as added by section 4 of part SS of chapter 59 of the
3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
4 6. In addition to the refund value of a beverage container as estab-
5 lished by section 27-1005 of this title, a deposit initiator shall pay
6 to any dealer or operator of a redemption center a handling fee of
7 [three and one-half] four and one-half cents for each beverage container
8 accepted by the deposit initiator from such dealer or operator of a
9 redemption center. Payment of the handling fee shall be as compensation
10 for collecting, sorting and packaging of empty beverage containers for
11 transport back to the deposit initiator or its designee. Payment of the
12 handling fee may not be conditioned on the purchase of any goods or
13 services, nor may such payment be made out of the refund value account
14 established pursuant to section 27-1012 of this title. A distributor who
15 does not initiate deposits on a type of beverage container is considered
16 a dealer only for the purpose of receiving a handling fee from a deposit
17 initiator.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
19 deemed repealed December 31, 2027.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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