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Int 0330-1998

Prescription Drug Prices Display, Criminal Penalties Abolish

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Consumer Affairsintroduced 1998-06-04

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 1998-06-04Passed: 2001-12-31
Committee on Consumer AffairsDepartment of Consumer Affairs

How it compares

28% of similar bills passed

14 passed · 36 died

This bill: 1306 days in committee

Similar bills: median 441 days · 210 days when passed

Sponsors (11)

Peter F. Vallone(prime)
Priscilla A. Wooten
John Fusco
Alphonse Stabile
June M. Eisland
Kenneth K. Fisher
Julia Harrison
Sheldon S. Leffler
Walter L. McCaffrey
Jerome X. O'Donovan

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
1998-06-04 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
1998-06-04 · City Council
ActionPrinted Item Laid on Desk
1998-06-26 · Legislative Documents Unit
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2001-12-31 · City Council
Full text
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.