Bill Text: NY A04973 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to increasing penalties for certain violations relating to the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products; requires revocation of license to sell lottery tickets and revocation of a liquor license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to economic development [A04973 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04973-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4973
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Economic Development
        AN ACT to amend the tax law and the alcoholic beverage control  law,  in
          relation  to  penalties  for  violations relating to the sale of ciga-
          rettes and tobacco products
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  2  of subdivision h of section 1607 of the tax
     2  law, as amended by chapter 162 of the laws of 2002, is amended and a new
     3  paragraph 3 is added to read as follows:
     4    2. A license shall be revoked for [one year] three years upon  notifi-
     5  cation  to the division by the commissioner of health of a lottery sales
     6  agent's [fourth] second violation of article thirteen-F  of  the  public
     7  health  law,  or a second violation of section eighteen hundred fourteen
     8  of this chapter, within a [three] five year period.
     9    3. The division must revoke a license for a minimum of three years for
    10  a second suspension or any revocation of a retail  license  pursuant  to
    11  section four hundred eighty-a of this chapter.
    12    §  2.  Section 119 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by
    13  adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    14    6. The liquor authority must revoke a retail  license  or  permit  for
    15  sale at a premises licensed upon notification to the liquor authority by
    16  the commissioner of taxation and finance of a revocation of a license to
    17  sell  cigarettes  or  tobacco  products pursuant to section four hundred
    18  eighty-a of the tax law.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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