Bill Text: NY A09495 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9495 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits smoking within 100 feet of the entrances or exits of any public or association library.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-23 - reported referred to codes [A09495 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09495-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         9495--B
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 10, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, GALEF, JAFFEE, HOOPER, COOK,
          SOLAGES,  SKOUFIS,  BLAKE, MOSLEY, BARRON, ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A. CERETTO, GLICK, HYNDMAN,  ROBINSON  --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Health -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee  --  again  reported  from said committee with amendments, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting  smok-
          ing within 100 feet of the entrances or exits of any public or associ-
          ation library
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1399-o of the  public  health  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke within one
     4  hundred  feet  of the entrances, exits or outdoor areas of any public or
     5  association library as defined in subdivision two of section two hundred
     6  fifty-three of the education law; provided, however, that the provisions
     7  of this subdivision shall not apply to smoking in a residence, or within
     8  the real property boundary lines of such residential real property.  The
     9  provisions  of  section  thirteen  hundred ninety-nine-p of this article
    10  shall not apply to this subdivision.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14244-04-6