Assembly Bill A2795

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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  • 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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2017-A2795 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3072
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9708, S6414
2013-2014: A2493, S2962
2015-2016: A909, S2495
2019-2020: A1810, S3106
2021-2022: S351
2023-2024: S1811

2017-A2795 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-A2795 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2795
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Veterans' Affairs
 
 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:
   § 397-B. WARNING PERIOD FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS  AT  CERTAIN  VETERANS'
 ORGANIZATION  FACILITIES.  1.  BEFORE  ANY  MONETARY FINES ARE ISSUED OR
 APPLIED BY ANY MUNICIPAL OR HEALTH AGENCY 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  CONTINUES,  THEN  A  MONETARY  FINE  MAY BE ISSUED OR APPLIED
 PROVIDED, THAT AFTER SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY PERIOD, SUCH  VETERANS'
 ORGANIZATION  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.  THE PROVISIONS OF
 THIS SECTION SHALL NOT: (A)  APPLY  TO  ANY  IMMINENT  LIFE  THREATENING
 BUILDING  CODE  OR HEALTH CODE VIOLATION WHICH NECESSITATES AN EMERGENCY
 CLOSURE OF A FACILITY; OR (B) BE CONSTRUED TO APPLY  TO  OR  EFFECT  ANY
 VIOLATION OF THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW MADE BY A FACILITY.
   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.
   § 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.

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