Prohibits the service of live octopus and squid in restaurants; authorizes the commissioner of the department of health to promulgate regulations pursuant thereto.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7680--A
IN SENATE
February 5, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting the
service of live octopus and squid in dining establishments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1352 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3 3-a. It shall be unlawful to furnish or serve in any public eating or
4 drinking establishment, any live octopus or squid (cephalopoda). In
5 preparing regulations pursuant to this subdivision, the commissioner
6 shall expressly prohibit the preparation and sale of octopus and squid
7 (cephalopoda) which is brought to the dining table and/or served to a
8 customer alive.
9 § 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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