Legislation Details

File #: Int 0328-1998    Version: * Name: Perishable Goods Labels, Criminal Penalties Abolish
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 6/4/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to abolishing criminal penalties with regard to perishable goods labeling and sale and maintaining civil penalties for such violations of the Code.
Sponsors: Peter F. Vallone, Priscilla A. Wooten, John Fusco, Alphonse Stabile, Lawrence A. Warden, June M. Eisland, Kenneth K. Fisher, Julia Harrison, Karen Koslowitz, Sheldon S. Leffler, Walter L. McCaffrey, Jerome X. O'Donovan
Council Member Sponsors: 12
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12/31/2001*Peter F. Vallone City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/26/1998*Peter F. Vallone Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/4/1998*Peter F. Vallone City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/4/1998*Peter F. Vallone City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 328

 

By The Speaker (Council Member Vallone) and Council Members Wooten, Fusco, Stabile and Warden; also Council Members Eisland, Fisher, Harrison, Koslowitz, Leffler, McCaffrey and O’Donovan - read and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to abolishing criminal penalties with regard to perishable goods labeling and sale and maintaining civil penalties for such violations of the Code.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Section 20-688 of Subchapter 8 of Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York is hereby amended as follows:

                     §20-688  Penalties.  Any person, firm, corporation or association or agent or employee thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of this subchapter or of the regulations promulgated pursuant to section 20-688 shall pay a civil penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred fifty dollars for each violation [and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars for each such violation].

                     §2.                     This local law shall take effect immediately.