Relates to municipal directors of weights and measures, permitting the county of Westchester to designate its commissioner or director of consumer affairs as its director of weights and measures.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4074--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, OTIS, GALEF, ABINANTI, BYRNE -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Agriculture -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to munici-
pal directors of weights and measures
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 180 of the agriculture and markets
2 law, as amended by section 1 of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of
3 2010, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. There shall be a county director of weights and measures in each
5 county, except where (a) a county is wholly embraced within a city there
6 shall be a city director of weights and measures, or (b) where two or
7 more counties have entered into an intermunicipal agreement, pursuant to
8 article five-G of the general municipal law, to share the functions,
9 powers, and duties of one director of weights and measures. Any county
10 or city having a population of one million or more may elect to desig-
11 nate its commissioner of consumer affairs as its director of weights and
12 measures. The county of Westchester may elect to designate its commis-
13 sioner or director of consumer affairs as its director of weights and
14 measures. Subdivision four of this section shall not apply to a commis-
15 sioner or director of consumer affairs so designated.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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