File #: Int 0836-2012    Version: * Name: Requiring food vendors to post prices.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 4/18/2012
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring food vendors to post prices.
Sponsors: Karen Koslowitz, Peter A. Koo, Inez E. Dickens, Annabel Palma, Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Mark S. Weprin, James G. Van Bramer, Diana Reyna, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., James Vacca, Gale A. Brewer, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Deborah L. Rose, Ruben Wills, Daniel J. Halloran III, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Int. No. 836
 
By Council Members Koslowitz, Koo, Dickens, Palma, Arroyo, Weprin, Van Bramer, Reyna, Comrie, Vacca, Brewer, Gentile, James, Recchia, Rose, Wills, Halloran and Ulrich
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring food vendors to post prices.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1.  Section 17-314 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amending by adding a new subdivision e to read as follows:
e.  Post prices for each food item offered for sale from any vehicle or food cart used in the operation of his or her business.  It shall be unlawful to charge more for a food item than the amount displayed on such vehicle or food cart.
ยง2.  This local law shall take effect one hundred twenty days after enactment provided, however that the commissioner of consumer affairs shall take all actions necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
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