Directs commissioner of agriculture and markets to require that the proprietor of a business where a kosher food violation of law occurred to post a report of such violation in the public portion of every premises in which a food business is conducted, for a period of time beginning with the date the sanction, penalty or both are imposed; requires such report be posted for a period of at least six months.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6209
IN SENATE
January 13, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir-
ing a report of violations by kosher food establishments to be posted
on the premises in which business is conducted
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 201-d of the agriculture and markets law is amended
2 by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
3 In addition to any other penalty provided by law, the commissioner
4 shall require the proprietor of any hotel, restaurant, caterer, food
5 establishment or other place where food products are sold for consump-
6 tion on or off the premises and where a violation of any of the
7 provisions of section two hundred one-a, two hundred one-b or two
8 hundred one-c of this article has occurred to conspicuously post a
9 record of such violation in the portion of every premises in which a
10 food business is conducted by such proprietor, which record shall
11 contain the nature of the violation and the sanction and penalty imposed
12 in such form as the commissioner shall determine. The commissioner shall
13 require such record to be conspicuously posted for a period of at least
14 six months, beginning with the date the sanction or penalty, or both,
15 are imposed.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
17 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that effective immediate-
18 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations
19 necessary for the implementation of the foregoing section of this act on
20 its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed
21 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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