New York A 760: Sets forth additional conditions which may be available in an order of protection

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A00760 Summary:

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Add Art 27 Title 34 §§27-3401 & 27-3403, En Con L; amd §92-s, St Fin L

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Relates to banning the use of non-compostable produce stickers beginning January 1, 2026; provides civil penalties for violations; provides that fines shall be deposited into the environmental protection fund.

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01/08/2025referred to environmental conservation

12/08/2025enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 760

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the state finance
 law, in relation to banning the use of non-compostable produce stick-
 ers

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Article 27 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 2 by adding a new title 34 to read as follows:
 3 TITLE 34
 4 PRODUCE STICKERS
 5 Section 27-3401. Non-compostable produce sticker ban.
 6 27-3403. Violations.
 7 § 27-3401. Non-compostable produce sticker ban.
 8 1. Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-six, no person, firm
 9 or corporation shall sell, offer for sale, or distribute any non-com-
 10 postable produce stickers or any produce with such non-compostable
 11 stickers in the state; provided, however, a person, firm or corporation
 12 may use its current inventory of non-compostable stickers prior to such
 13 date.
 14 2. The department is authorized to promulgate any rules and regu-
 15 lations as it shall deem necessary to implement the provisions of this
 16 title.
 17 § 27-3403. Violations.
 18 1. A person, firm or corporation that violates a provision of this
 19 title shall receive a warning notice for the first such violation,
 20 detailing the person, firm or corporation's requirement to correct the
 21 violation within thirty days from the date the notice is sent. A person,
 22 firm or corporation shall be liable to the state for a civil penalty of
 23 two hundred fifty dollars for the first violation after receiving a
 24 warning and failing to correct the violation within thirty days and five
 25 hundred dollars for any subsequent violation in the same calendar year.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00623-01-5

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 1 A hearing or opportunity to be heard shall be provided prior to the
 2 assessment of any civil penalty.
 3 2. The department is hereby authorized to enforce the provisions of
 4 this title and all monies collected shall be deposited to the credit of
 5 the environmental protection fund established pursuant to section nine-
 6 ty-two-s of the state finance law.
 7 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 92-s of the state finance law, as
 8 amended by chapter 734 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
 9 follows:
 10 3. Such fund shall consist of the amount of revenue collected within
 11 the state from the amount of revenue, interest and penalties deposited
 12 pursuant to section fourteen hundred twenty-one of the tax law, the
 13 amount of fees and penalties received from easements or leases pursuant
 14 to subdivision fourteen of section seventy-five of the public lands law
 15 and the money received as annual service charges pursuant to section
 16 four hundred four-n of the vehicle and traffic law, all moneys required
 17 to be deposited therein from the contingency reserve fund pursuant to
 18 section two hundred ninety-four of chapter fifty-seven of the laws of
 19 nineteen hundred ninety-three, all moneys required to be deposited
 20 pursuant to section thirteen of chapter six hundred ten of the laws of
 21 nineteen hundred ninety-three, repayments of loans made pursuant to
 22 section 54-0511 of the environmental conservation