S 6154: Prohibits fractional pricing of any motor fuel for use in internal combustion engines in motor vehicles or motorboats; imposes civil penalties of up to twenty-five dollars per day.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6154 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to prohib- iting fractional pricing of certain petroleum products The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 192 of the agriculture and markets law is amended 2 by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. No person, firm or corporation shall sell or offer for sale at 4 retail any motor fuel for use in internal combustion engines in motor 5 vehicles or motorboats with a selling price per gallon which includes 6 any fraction of a cent. Failure to comply with the provision of this 7 subdivision shall subject such person, firm or corporation to a civil 8 penalty of up to twenty-five dollars for each day such failure occurs. 9 § 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 192 10 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by chapter 101 of the 11 laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows: 12 (iii) where a multiple product dispensing device is capable of 13 dispensing multiple products at multiple prices, then the selling price 14 per gallon may be posted thereon with numerals at least one-half that 15 height and one-half that width required by subparagraph (i) of this 16 paragraph[, although numerals representing tenths of a cent may be 17 displayed at no less than one-half those dimensions which disclose the 18 selling price per gallon of such motor fuel dispensed therefrom]. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 20 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of 21 agriculture and markets is authorized to promulgate any rules and regu- 22 lations necessary to implement this act on or before such effective 23 date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09801-01-5