Bill Text: NY A03467 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the installation and maintenance of lockout devices on lottery vending machines by licensed lottery sales agents to prevent use by minors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A03467 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A03467-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3467 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring security devices on lottery machines to prevent use by minors The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 1610 of the tax law, as added by 2 chapter 92 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows: 3 a. No ticket shall be sold to any person under the age of eighteen 4 years, but this shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchase of a ticket 5 for the purpose of making a gift by a person eighteen years of age or 6 older to a person less than that age. Any licensee or the employee or 7 agent of any licensee who sells or offers to sell a lottery ticket to 8 any person under the age of eighteen shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 9 The division shall require the installation and maintenance of a lockout 10 device on all lottery vending machines by the licensed lottery sales 11 agents with control over such vending machines to prevent their use by 12 persons under the age of eighteen. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08209-01-3
