File #: Int 0419-2010    Version: * Name: Requiring food service establishments to encase single service utensils in protective coverings.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 11/17/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring food service establishments to encase single service utensils in protective coverings.
Sponsors: Karen Koslowitz, Daniel Dromm , Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Deborah L. Rose, James G. Van Bramer, Michael C. Nelson, Rosie Mendez, Peter A. Koo
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Int. No. 419
 
By Council Members Koslowitz, Dromm, Ferreras, Rose, Van Bramer, Nelson, Mendez and Koo
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring food service establishments to encase single service utensils in protective coverings.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-197 to read as follows:
§17-197 Encasing single service utensils in protective coverings. a. For the purposes of this section, the term "single service utensil" shall mean any knives, spoons or forks that are intended by the manufacturer for single eating usage and generally recognized by the public as items to be discarded after one usage.
b. No food service establishments shall offer single service utensils for use by customers unless such utensils are encased in a protective covering.
§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment into law, provided that the commissioner may promulgate any rules necessary for implementing and carrying out the provisions of this section prior to its effective date.
 
AMS/AC
LS # 920
11/10/10