Bill Text: NY A04417 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the sale or offering for sale at retail of candy or other food products packaged or shaped to emulate or resemble tobacco products; violations of such provisions shall constitute a violation as defined in the penal law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A04417 Detail]
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4417
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 5, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to candy and food
products packaged as tobacco products
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
2 399-j to read as follows:
3 S 399-J. CANDY AND FOOD PRODUCTS PACKAGED AS TOBACCO PRODUCTS. 1. NO
4 CANDY, CONFECTION OR OTHER FOOD PRODUCT SHALL BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR
5 SALE AT RETAIL IN THIS STATE WHICH SHALL BE PACKAGED OR SHAPED TO
6 EMULATE OR RESEMBLE ANY TYPE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS INCLUDING, BUT NOT
7 LIMITED TO, CIGARETTES, CIGARS OR POWDERED TOBACCO.
8 2. A VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL CONSTITUTE A
9 VIOLATION AS DEFINED IN THE PENAL LAW.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04528-01-3
