Requires solid waste carting company containers used at curbside to have a minimum of 72 contiguous square inches of reflective material affixed thereto; provides for a civil penalty of up to $1000 for violations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5934
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
reflective material on carting company containers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 392-k to read as follows:
3 § 392-k. Carting company containers. 1. All solid waste carting compa-
4 ny containers for use at curbside, including but not limited to the two
5 yard, four yard, six yard and eight yard bucket load type, and the ten
6 yard, twenty yard, thirty yard and forty yard roll-off type, shall have
7 a minimum of seventy-two contiguous square inches of highly reflective
8 material affixed to each side and end of the container at a height which
9 maximizes visibility to automobile drivers when reflected from their
10 headlights. Roll-off containers shall have two dispersed seventy-two
11 square inch patches of such reflective material affixed to the long
12 sides of this type container.
13 2. Any violation of this section by a carting company shall be punish-
14 able by a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09873-01-9
