S 1188: Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at congressionally chartered veterans' organization facilities.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1188 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, BORRELLO, HELMING, MARTINEZ, MYRIE, O'MARA, ORTT, PALUMBO, ROLISON, STEC, TEDISCO, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veter- ans, Homeland Security and Military 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: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 397-c to read as follows: 3 § 397-c. Warning period for certain violations at certain veterans' 4 organization facilities. 1. Before any monetary fines are issued or 5 applied by any municipal or health agency to the owner or operator of 6 any place, post, facility or hall owned or operated by a congressionally 7 chartered veterans' group, a warning period of one hundred twenty days 8 shall take place during which time such group shall be able to cure such 9 violation. If, at the end of such one hundred twenty-day period, such 10 violation continues, then a monetary fine may be issued or applied 11 provided, that after such one hundred twenty-day period, such veterans' 12 organization may request an extension of time to cure such violation. 13 Such request shall be made in writing and shall include proof of an 14 attempt to cure such violation within such period. The provisions of 15 this section shall not: (a) apply to any imminent life threatening 16 building code or health code violation which necessitates an emergency 17 closure of a facility; or (b) be construed to apply to or effect any 18 violation of the alcoholic beverage control law made by a facility. 19 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "congressionally char- 20 tered veterans' group" shall mean any veterans' group that has been 21 chartered by the United States Congress under title 36 of the United 22 States code. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 24 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01927-01-5