NY State Senate Bill 2025-S3538

Senate Bill S3538

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Repeals the requirement that any person, firm or corporation that sells or offers for sale at retail any motor fuel for use in internal combustion engines in motor vehicles or motorboats posts certain signage

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee

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Jan 28, 2025	referred to agriculture

2025-S3538 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Agriculture
Law Section:: New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:: Rpld §192 sub 5, amd §192, Ag & Mkts L; amd §20-672, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S7619

2025-S3538 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S3538 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S3538

SPONSOR: BORRELLO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to making conforming technical changes; and to repeal subdivi-
sion 5 of section 192 of the agriculture and markets law, in relation to
the requirement that any person, firm or corporation that sells or
offers for sale at retail any motor fuel for use in internal combustion
engines in motor vehicles or motorboats posts on the dispensing device
signage stating the price per gallon of such motor fuel

 
PURPOSE:

To remove the requirement of pump topper signage for gas retailers when
it is already posted by the road and electronically on the pumps.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section One eepeals subdivision 5 of Section 192 of the agriculture and
markets law and renumbers subdivision 6 as subdivision 5.

Section two amends the opening paragraph of subdivision a of section
20-672 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by
local law number 79 of the city of New York for the year 2015, to the
following: (Except as provided in subdivision 5 of section one hundred
ninety-two of the agriculture and markets law, it) It shall be unlawful
for any person, in connection with the sale or offer for sale at retail
of any petroleum products for use in motor vehicles or motor boats, to
post or maintain at such place of sale any sign, placard or other
display that states the price at which such petroleum products are sold
or offered for sale, except as follows:

Section three states this act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

NY is one of only two states that require these signs in addition to
both street signage and electronic signage at the pump. With the digital
price above the nozzle and street signs, prices are already fully
disclosed.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: S7619 Referred to Agriculture

2023: S7619 Referred to Rules

2022: New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S3538 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3538
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to making conforming technical changes; and to repeal subdi-
   vision 5 of section  192  of  the  agriculture  and  markets  law,  in
   relation  to the requirement that any person, firm or corporation that
   sells or offers for sale at retail any motor fuel for use in  internal
   combustion  engines  in  motor  vehicles  or  motorboats  posts on the
   dispensing device signage stating the price per gallon of  such  motor
   fuel
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 192 of the agriculture and markets
 law is REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 5.
   § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision a of section 20-672  of  the
 administrative  code  of  the  city of New York, as amended by local law
 number 79 of the city of New York for the year 2015, is amended to  read
 as follows:
   [Except  as  provided in subdivision five of section one hundred nine-
 ty-two of the agriculture and markets law, it] IT shall be unlawful  for
 any  person,  in connection with the sale or offer for sale at retail of
 any petroleum products for use in motor vehicles or motor boats, to post
 or maintain at such place of sale any sign,  placard  or  other  display
 that  states  the  price  at  which  such petroleum products are sold or
 offered for sale, except as follows:
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08009-01-5

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