Requires the written notices, signs and markers required for pesticides for commercial and residential lawn application to be printed in both the English and Spanish languages and any other languages if the commissioner of environmental conservation deems it necessary.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5579--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 7, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
-- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
requiring certain signs and notices relating to pesticides for commer-
cial or residential lawn application to be printed in both the English
and Spanish languages
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section
2 33-1004 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 285
3 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) All persons performing residential lawn applications treating an
5 area more than one hundred square feet shall affix markers to be placed
6 within or along the perimeter of the area where pesticides will be
7 applied. Markers are to be placed so as to be clearly visible to persons
8 immediately outside the perimeter of such property. [Such markers] Mark-
9 ers shall be posted at least twelve inches above the ground and shall be
10 at least four inches by five inches in size. Such markers shall be in
11 both the English and Spanish languages, and any other languages if the
12 commissioner deems it necessary pursuant to rules and regulations.
13 § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 33-1005 of the
14 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 285 of the laws of
15 2000, is amended to read as follows:
16 The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing
17 uniform standards for a consumer pesticide use information sign which
18 shall be placed in retail establishments that sell general use pesti-
19 cides for commercial or residential lawn application. This sign shall be
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 in both the English and Spanish languages, and any other languages if
2 the commissioner deems it necessary pursuant to rules and regulations,
3 and shall contain the following information:
4 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 33-1005 of the environmental conserva-
5 tion law, as added by chapter 285 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
6 read as follows:
7 2. The commissioner shall prepare and publish, in consultation with
8 the commissioner of health, educational materials, in both the English
9 and Spanish languages and any other languages if the commissioner deems
10 it necessary, explaining the requirements of paragraphs b and c of
11 subdivision one of section 33-1004 of this article and section three
12 hundred ninety-c of the social services law and the human and environ-
13 mental health effects of lawn care pesticides.
14 § 4. Subdivision 3 of section 33-1005 of the environmental conserva-
15 tion law, as added by chapter 285 of the laws of 2000, is amended by
16 adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
17 c. The written notice required by paragraph b of subdivision one of
18 section 33-1004 of this article shall be in both the English and Spanish
19 languages, and any other languages if the commissioner deems it neces-
20 sary pursuant to rules and regulations.
21 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
22 it shall have become a law.
