Relates to owner liability for failure of an operator to comply with street cleaning parking rules; relates to access to records prepared pursuant to street cleaning parking rules.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires large grocery suppliers (those with over $6 billion in annual sales) to offer the same pricing terms to all retailers buying similar volumes of covered goods (like packaged foods, excluding alcohol and gasoline). It mandates that suppliers disclose anonymized pricing terms to smaller grocers within 14 days of a request, ensuring transparency about deals offered to major chains. The law prohibits suppliers from refusing sales to smaller retailers based on store type (e.g., convenience stores vs. supermarkets) if it creates unfair price differences. It directly affects small independent grocers and their suppliers, aiming to prevent large retailers from leveraging buying power to charge smaller competitors higher prices for the same products.
Requires a motion picture theater that offers more than ten motion picture showings per week to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning such that at least one quarter of all showings of a motion picture with four or more showings during a one-week time period shall have open motion picture captioning; provides exceptions and penalties for violations.
Requires each school district to ensure that every public school in which school days exceed five hours in duration provides up to thirty minutes of daily recess within the school day for all students in kindergarten through fifth grade and for students in sixth grade who attend an elementary school.
Maddy summaryThis bill eliminates mandatory minimum prison sentences for certain offenses, replacing them with judicial discretion to determine appropriate sentences based on individual circumstances. It requires courts to provide written explanations for sentencing decisions and mandates that pre-sentence reports include analysis of incarceration costs to the state. Defendants gain expanded access to pre-sentence reports used in sentencing decisions, and judges must consider rehabilitation and community safety goals rather than fixed minimum terms. The law applies to felony sentencing under New York's penal and criminal procedure laws, directly affecting judges, defendants, and the state correctional system.
Restricts the performance of surgical devocalization procedures on dogs and cats; prohibited for reasons of convenience in keeping or handling a dog or cat.
Requires the division of criminal justice to create and disseminate to police departments a video on bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters including information on classification and definitions, legal operation, speed limits and enforcement, helmet and age requirements, and a review of legal operation of such devices.
Prohibits landlords from requiring a fee for nonessential services in a tenant's base rent, including cable, internet and garage usage, as a condition of leasing a dwelling; excludes buildings with less than three dwelling units.
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the influence of any drug, intoxicant, or other substance to a degree which rendered the victim temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling such person's conduct and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to a person in the actor's situation.
Provides that the department of environmental conservation place a community air monitoring system and similar systems as deemed necessary by the department within a one-mile radius of New York city airports; provides for publication of air quality data.
