Bill Text: NY A08565 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of electrically conductive balloons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A08565 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08565-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8565

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
          sale of certain balloons

          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-jj to read as follows:
     3    § 399-jj. Prohibit the sale of certain balloons. 1. It shall be unlaw-
     4  ful  for  any  person,  firm,    partnership or corporation to knowingly
     5  import, sell, offer for  sale,  manufacture,  distribute,  transport  or
     6  otherwise  market  any  balloon  or  other  inflatable  object made of a
     7  conductive material, including but not limited to mylar, filled  with  a
     8  gas which is lighter than air without:
     9    (a)  a  weight  affixed  to such object which prevents the object from
    10  being lighter than air;
    11    (b) a warning statement attached to such object; or
    12    (c) identification information of  the  manufacturer  printed  on  the
    13  object.
    14    2.  It  shall  be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corpo-
    15  ration to knowingly import, sell, offer for sale, manufacture,  distrib-
    16  ute,  transport  or  otherwise  market  any  balloon or other inflatable
    17  object which has attached an  electrically  conductive  string,  tether,
    18  streamer, or other electrically conductive appurtenance.
    19    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13650-01-9