STATE OF NEW YORK
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1373
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, GIGLIO, HAWLEY, LOPEZ -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. MONTESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to trans-
portation surcharges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
2 section 257-b to read as follows:
3 § 257-b. Transportation surcharges. 1. A dairy transporter shall not
4 require an individual farmer, farming cooperative or a farming associ-
5 ation to pay a dairy hauling surcharge; unless such surcharge is
6 approved by the department. The department shall approve transportation
7 surcharges which the commissioner deems justified surcharges.
8 2. For the purposes of this section, a justified surcharge shall be
9 defined as a charge directly correlated to the actual costs of transpor-
10 tation due to the drastic increase in the cost of fuel and any unantic-
11 ipated cost that affects the entire dairy industry.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05135-01-5
