Bill Text: NY A01372 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-31 - held for consideration in consumer affairs and protection [A01372 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01372-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1372--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Consumer  Affairs  and  Protection  --  committee discharged, bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee
       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.
                                                                  LBD03861-05-1