Requires restaurants that offer online delivery services to post their most recent sanitary inspection grade on their website and/or any internet-based food delivery service websites where consumers can order from such food service establishment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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666
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the
general municipal law, in relation to requiring restaurants that offer
online delivery services to post their most recent sanitary inspection
letter grade on their website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 17-195.1 to read as follows:
3 § 17-195.1 Posting of sanitary inspection grade. a. Definition.
4 "Internet-based food delivery service provider" shall mean any food
5 service establishment as defined in section 81.03 of the health code of
6 the city of New York that accepts food orders for delivery from custom-
7 ers via the internet, or any third-party website that accepts food
8 orders for delivery from customers via the internet.
9 b. Every internet-based food delivery service provider shall conspicu-
10 ously post on their website the most current sanitary inspection letter
11 grade of any food service establishment, pursuant to section 81.51 of
12 the health code of the city of New York, for which food delivery
13 services are provided to customers. Food service establishments shall
14 be responsible for providing internet-based food delivery service
15 providers with the most current sanitary inspection letter grade upon
16 receipt of such letter grade following sanitary inspection.
17 c. Any internet-based food delivery service provider that violates
18 subdivision b of this section or any of the rules promulgated thereunder
19 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars
20 for each violation.
21 § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section
22 139-e to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 139-e. Posting of sanitary inspection grade. 1. As used in this
2 section "internet-based food delivery service provider" shall mean any
3 food service establishment that accepts food orders for delivery from
4 customers via the internet, or any third party website that accepts food
5 orders for delivery from customers via the internet.
6 2. In any municipal corporation that has adopted a local law or rule
7 requiring the posting of sanitary inspection results, every internet-
8 based food delivery service provider shall conspicuously post on their
9 website the most current sanitary inspection results of any food service
10 establishment located in such municipal corporation for which food
11 delivery services are provided to customers. Food service establish-
12 ments shall be responsible for providing internet-based food delivery
13 service providers with the most current sanitary inspection letter grade
14 upon receipt of such letter grade following sanitary inspection.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law.
