Bill Text: NY S06198 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the operation of a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products unless the machine is located more than three hundred fifty feet of a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-12 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06198 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S06198-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N S E N A T E
January 12, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the placement of
tobacco vending machines near schools, churches, synagogues or other
places of worship
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 1399-dd of the public health law, as amended by
2 chapter 13 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
3 S 1399-dd. Sale of tobacco products or herbal cigarettes in vending
4 machines. No person, firm, partnership, company or corporation shall
5 operate a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products or herbal
6 cigarettes unless such machine is located: (a) in a bar as defined in
7 subdivision one of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-n of this chap-
8 ter, or the bar area of a food service establishment with a valid,
9 on-premises full liquor license; (b) in a private club; (c) in a tobacco
10 business as defined in subdivision eight of section thirteen hundred
11 ninety-nine-aa of this article; or (d) in a place of employment which
12 has an insignificant portion of its regular workforce comprised of
13 people under the age of eighteen years and only in such locations that
14 are not accessible to the general public; provided, however, that in
15 such locations the vending machine is located in plain view and under
16 the direct supervision and control of the person in charge of the
17 location or his or her designated agent or employee; PROVIDED, FURTHER,
18 HOWEVER, THAT NO SUCH VENDING MACHINE SHALL BE WITHIN THREE HUNDRED
19 FIFTY FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL, CHURCH, SYNA-
20 GOGUE OR OTHER PLACE OF WORSHIP.
21 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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