Provides that the requirement for restaurants to provide public toilet facilities shall be extended to all restaurants with a seating capacity of ten or more regardless of the date of commencement of operation as a restaurant, with the exception that New York city restaurants shall be "grandfathered" under previous requirements.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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435
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. DILAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring public
toilet facilities in restaurants with a seating capacity of ten or
more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 1352-a of the public health
2 law, as added by chapter 774 of the laws of 1977, are amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. A person or corporation operating an establishment with a seating
5 capacity of [twenty] ten or more wherein food is sold for consumption on
6 the premises shall provide appropriately identified and maintained
7 public toilet facilities except that if there exists alternate available
8 facilities in the same building wherein such establishment is located,
9 suitable public notice of such alternate facility shall suffice for
10 purposes of this [act] section.
11 2. [The] In cities with a population of one million or more, the
12 provisions of subdivision one of this section shall [not] apply to
13 establishments [in operation on] newly opened for business on and after
14 the effective date of this [act] section.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the three hundred sixty-fifth day
16 after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00671-01-3
