Albany, NY – The days are numbered for a bizarre state regulation requiring some restaurants to display a sign saying “parevine sold here,” as well as other antiquated or obsolete rules that Albany imposes on businesses.
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Gov. David Paterson announced Friday that he will sign an executive order establishing a program to eliminate or revise regulations that unnecessarily burden businesses, including health care providers, as well as local governments.
A committee will be formed to systematically review one group of agencies at a time. For each group, affected constituencies and the public will get a 60-day period to comment on whether existing regulations are “unnecessary, unbalanced, or unwise,” the governor’s office said.
The agencies will then have 45 days to examine the regulations that were flagged and make recommendations to the oversight committee on what to keep, change or throw out. Parevine, for the record, is a non-dairy substance used in some frozen desserts. State officials could not say why its sale requires the display of a sign.
The oversight committee in charge of the Regulatory Review and Reform Program will consist of the governor’s top aides: Secretary Lawrence Schwartz, Counsel Peter Kiernan, Director of Operations Valerie Grey, Budget Director Robert Megna, and Amy Stern, acting director of the governor’s office of regulatory reform. They will take “appropriate action” and report periodically to the governor on its progress, according to a press release from Mr. Paterson’s office.
“This executive order brings New York one step closer to our ultimate goal of widespread fiscal reform, government efficiency and reduced property tax burdens,” Mr. Paterson said, in a statement.
In the same release, Kenneth Adams, president and chief executive of the Business Council of New York State, said, “Gov. Paterson’s proposal rightly recognizes that state government needs to remove obstacles to private sector job growth in order for New York’s economy to recover.” The New York State Association of Counties also cheered the action.
Among the first agencies up for scrutiny are the Department of Agriculture and Markets, the Department of Environmental Conservation, the Department of Health, the Department of Labor, the Department of State, the Department of Taxation & Finance and the State Liquor Authority.
The initial group was chosen because those agencies have the most regulations—tens of thousands of pages in all. A new group of agencies will be chosen approximately every six months. A Paterson official said agencies will focus on two to 10 regulations each, the kind that “make businesses jump through hoops for no reason.”
can anyone tell why an LLC needs to publish in 2 newspapers for few weeks ,what the purpose of that????
what a waist of money!!
It’s to support the newspaper industry. The same people that endorse the candidates had this in place to ensure they would have a revenue stream.
The purpose is to prevent fraud. The assumption was that people would read it and help see if someone was creating an LLC for fraud purposes.
wat does LLC have to do with the article ??
There are many old statutes and licenses needed to serve margarine and non dairy sustitutes for dairy in a commercial setting. these are remnants of rules set up to make sure that Hotels and such used real pure butter unless they were open about using cheaper substitutes.
Today the price difference is not as major, the health issues are unclear yet the rules and potential penalties remain.