Bill Text: NY A04197 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4197 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A04197 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04197-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4197
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        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-k to read as follows:
     3    §  399-k.  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    § 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.
                                                                   LBD03714-01-7