Bill Text: NY A02027 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2027 (Prior Session Legislation)

NY State Legislature page for A02027

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes no itinerant vendor, except for a manufacturer, an authorized manufacturer's representative, or authorized distributor, shall offer for sale baby food, nonprescription drugs, cosmetics or batteries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-27 - reported referred to codes [A02027 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02027-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2027
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A.  ABBATE, BOYLAND, GALEF, HOOPER, JAFFEE, MAGEE, MAGNARELLI, MAISEL,
         MARKEY, PERRY, RUSSELL, SWEENEY --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
         Committee on Economic Development
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to itinerant
         vendors
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 38 of the general business law, as added by chapter
    2  282 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  38. Prohibited sales. No itinerant vendor, except for A MANUFACTUR-
    4  ER, an authorized manufacturer's representative, or authorized distribu-
    5  tor, shall offer for sale any of the following items:
    6    1. [Food manufactured and packaged for sale for consumption by a child
    7  under the age of two years; or
    8    2. Drugs as defined in section three thousand three hundred two of the
    9  public health law] BABY FOOD, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ANY FOOD  MANUFACTURED
   10  AND  PACKAGED SPECIFICALLY FOR CONSUMPTION BY A CHILD UNDER TWO YEARS OF
   11  AGE.  THE TERM SHALL INCLUDE INFANT FORMULA;
   12    2. NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ANY  NON-NARCOTIC  MEDI-
   13  CINE  OR  DRUG  THAT  MAY BE SOLD WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION. THE TERM SHALL
   14  INCLUDE ANY DRUGS COMMONLY KNOWN AS  "OVER-THE-COUNTER  DRUGS,"  DIETARY
   15  SUPPLEMENTS  AS  DEFINED  IN  21 USC 32(FF), AND VITAMINS AND SUBSTANCES
   16  RECOGNIZED AS DRUGS IN THE OFFICIAL UNITED STATES  PHARMACOPOEIA,  OFFI-
   17  CIAL  HOMEOPATHIC  PHARMACOPOEIA  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES,  OR  OFFICIAL
   18  NATIONAL FORMULARY, OR ANY SUPPLEMENT TO SUCH PUBLICATIONS;
   19    3. COSMETICS, WHICH SHALL  MEAN  MERCHANDISE,  OTHER  THAN  SOAP,  BUT
   20  INCLUDING  RAZOR  BLADES,  THAT IS INTENDED TO BE RUBBED, POURED, SPRIN-
   21  KLED, OR SPRAYED ONTO, INTRODUCED INTO,  OR  OTHERWISE  APPLIED  TO  THE
   22  HUMAN  BODY  OR  ANY  PART THEREOF FOR CLEANSING, BEAUTIFYING, PROMOTING
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01314-01-3
       A. 2027                             2
    1  ATTRACTIVENESS, OR ALTERING THE APPEARANCE OF THE HUMAN BODY OR ANY PART
    2  THEREOF; OR
    3    4.  BATTERIES,  WHICH  SHALL MEAN   A DEVICE CONSISTING OF ONE OR MORE
    4  CELLS, EACH CELL CONSISTING OF A POSITIVE ELECTRODE,  A  NEGATIVE  ELEC-
    5  TRODE  AND  AN  ELECTROLYTE,  WHICH IS USED TO PROVIDE STORED ELECTRICAL
    6  POWER.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.