Bill Text: NY S00722 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes no itinerant vendor, except for a manufacturer, an authorized manufacturer's representative, or authorized distributor, shall offer for sale baby food, nonprescription drugs or cosmetics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S00722 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00722-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          722
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 14, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sens. C. JOHNSON, AUBERTINE, DIAZ, DUANE, ONORATO, SAMP-
         SON, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be
         committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to itinerant
         vendors
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 38 of the general business law, as added by chapter
    2  282 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  38. Prohibited sales. No itinerant vendor, except for A MANUFACTUR-
    4  ER, an authorized manufacturer's representative, or authorized distribu-
    5  tor, shall offer for sale any of the following items:
    6    1. [Food manufactured and packaged for sale for consumption by a child
    7  under the age of two years; or
    8    2. Drugs as defined in section three thousand three hundred two of the
    9  public health law] BABY FOOD, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ANY FOOD  MANUFACTURED
   10  AND  PACKAGED SPECIFICALLY FOR CONSUMPTION BY A CHILD UNDER TWO YEARS OF
   11  AGE.  THE TERM SHALL INCLUDE INFANT FORMULA;
   12    2. NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ANY  NON-NARCOTIC  MEDI-
   13  CINE  OR  DRUG  THAT  MAY BE SOLD WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION. THE TERM SHALL
   14  INCLUDE ANY DRUGS COMMONLY KNOWN  AS  "OVER-THE-COUNTER  DRUGS,"  HERBAL
   15  PRODUCTS,  DIETARY  SUPPLEMENTS,  BOTANICAL  EXTRACTS,  AND VITAMINS AND
   16  SUBSTANCES RECOGNIZED AS DRUGS IN THE OFFICIAL UNITED STATES PHARMACOPO-
   17  EIA, OFFICIAL HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF THE UNITED STATES,  OR  OFFI-
   18  CIAL NATIONAL FORMULARY, OR ANY SUPPLEMENT TO SUCH PUBLICATIONS;
   19    3.  COSMETICS,  WHICH  SHALL  MEAN  MERCHANDISE,  OTHER THAN SOAP, BUT
   20  INCLUDING RAZOR BLADES, THAT IS INTENDED TO BE  RUBBED,  POURED,  SPRIN-
   21  KLED,  OR  SPRAYED  ONTO,  INTRODUCED  INTO, OR OTHERWISE APPLIED TO THE
   22  HUMAN BODY OR ANY PART THEREOF  FOR  CLEANSING,  BEAUTIFYING,  PROMOTING
   23  ATTRACTIVENESS, OR ALTERING THE APPEARANCE OF THE HUMAN BODY OR ANY PART
   24  THEREOF.
   25    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01145-02-9