Legislation Details

File #: Int 0330-1998    Version: * Name: Prescription Drug Prices Display, 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 the display of prescription drug prices and maintaining civil penalties for such violations of the Code.
Sponsors: Peter F. Vallone, Priscilla A. Wooten, John Fusco, Alphonse Stabile, June M. Eisland, Kenneth K. Fisher, Julia Harrison, Karen Koslowitz, Sheldon S. Leffler, Walter L. McCaffrey, Jerome X. O'Donovan
Council Member Sponsors: 11
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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. 330

 

By The Speaker (Council Member Vallone) Council Members Wooten, Fusco and Stabile; 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 the display of prescription drug prices and maintaining civil penalties for such violations of the Code.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Section 20-715 of Subchapter 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York is hereby amended as follows:

                     §20-715 Penalties.  Any person who shall violate the provisions of section 20-713 or regulations promulgated pursuant to this subchapter shall pay a civil penalty of twenty-five dollars for the first offense and for each succeeding offense a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred fifty dollars for each such violation.  [and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars for the first offense and for each succeeding offense a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred fifty dollars for each such violation.]  For the purposes of this section, if on any single day the current selling price list is not displayed in accordance with section 20-713 or regulations promulgated pursuant to this subchapter, it shall be considered a single violation.

                     §2.                     This local law shall take effect immediately.