STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2233 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to billboards advertising alcoholic beverages 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 2 section 397-b to read as follows: 3 § 397-b. Billboards advertising alcoholic beverages. No billboard 4 advertising any alcoholic beverage shall be erected or maintained within 5 one thousand feet of (1) any public or private elementary or secondary 6 school or (2) any playground adjacent to or within one thousand feet of 7 any private or public elementary or secondary school. For purposes of 8 this section, the term "billboard" shall include any billboard, sign, 9 notice, poster, display or other stationary device intended to attract 10 or which does attract the attention of operators of motor vehicles or 11 pedestrians. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after the date on which it 13 shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06493-01-9