Senate Bill S6414

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at certain veterans' organization facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S6414 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S2962
2015-2016: S2495
2017-2018: S3072
2019-2020: S3106
2021-2022: S351
2023-2024: S1811

2011-S6414 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at congressionally chartered veterans' organization facilities.

2011-S6414 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S6414 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6414

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 6, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring a one
  hundred twenty-day warning period for certain  violations  at  certain
  veterans' organization facilities

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
397-b to read as follows:
  S 397-B. WARNING PERIOD FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS  AT  CERTAIN  VETERANS'
ORGANIZATION  FACILITIES.  1. BEFORE ANY MONETARY FINES OR PENALTIES ARE
ISSUED OR APPLIED TO THE OWNER OR OPERATOR OF ANY PLACE, POST,  FACILITY
OR  HALL  OWNED  OR  OPERATED  BY  A CONGRESSIONALLY CHARTERED VETERANS'
GROUP, A WARNING PERIOD OF ONE HUNDRED  TWENTY  DAYS  SHALL  TAKE  PLACE
DURING  WHICH TIME SUCH GROUP SHALL BE ABLE TO CURE SUCH VIOLATION.  IF,
AT THE END OF SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY PERIOD, SUCH VIOLATION CONTIN-
UES, THEN A MONETARY FINE OR PENALTY MAY BE ISSUED OR APPLIED  PROVIDED,
THAT  AFTER SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY PERIOD, SUCH VETERANS' ORGANIZA-
TION MAY REQUEST AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO  CURE  SUCH  VIOLATION.    SUCH
REQUEST  SHALL  BE MADE IN WRITING AND SHALL INCLUDE PROOF OF AN ATTEMPT
TO CURE SUCH VIOLATION WITHIN SUCH PERIOD.
  2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "CONGRESSIONALLY  CHAR-
TERED  VETERANS'  GROUP"  SHALL  MEAN  ANY VETERANS' GROUP THAT HAS BEEN
CHARTERED BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS UNDER TITLE  36  OF  THE  UNITED
STATES CODE.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13838-02-2

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