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                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 19, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the sale of tobac-
         co products over the internet
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.   The public health law is amended by adding a new section
    2  1399-dd-1 to read as follows:
    3    S 1399-DD-1. RETAIL SHIPMENT OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS.   BEFORE  A  COMPANY
    4  MAY  SHIP  TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO AN INDIVIDUAL ATTEMPTING TO PURCHASE SUCH
    5  PRODUCTS, OVER THE INTERNET OR OTHERWISE, SUCH COMPANY SHALL SEND A FORM
    6  TO THE INDIVIDUAL REQUESTING AN AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE THAT SUCH  INDIVID-
    7  UAL  IS  EIGHTEEN  YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. UPON RECEIPT OF SUCH FORM SUCH
    8  COMPANY MAY THEN SHIP THE TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   10  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03068-01-1