Bill Text: NY A06889 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the public display of pornographic magazines or materials by street vendors in cities of one million or more; imposes a $100 fine for a first offense, a $250 fine for a second offense, and suspension of the vendor's license for a third or subsequent offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A06889 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06889-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6889 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting the display of pornographic magazines or materials by street vendors in cities of one million or more The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 410.05 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 410.05 Public display of pornographic magazines or materials by street 4 vendors. 5 1. It shall be unlawful for street vendors in cities of one million 6 or more to display pornographic magazines or materials. 7 2. For purposes of this section only, pornographic magazines or mate- 8 rials, are defined as magazines or materials showing acts of sexual 9 intercourse or acts of sexual perversion. This section shall not be 10 construed as applying to bona fide medical photographs or materials. 11 3. A violation of the provisions of subdivision one of this section 12 shall be punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars, a second violation 13 by a fine of two hundred fifty dollars, and for a third or subsequent 14 violation by suspension of such vendor's license. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 16 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. LBD10920-01-9