Bill Text: NY S02790 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the operation of a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products unless the machine is located more than three hundred fifty feet of a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02790 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02790-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2790
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 29, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the  placement  of
         tobacco  vending  machines near schools, churches, synagogues or other
         places of worship
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  1399-dd  of the public health law, as amended by
    2  chapter 448 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 1399-dd. Sale of tobacco products, herbal cigarettes  or  electronic
    4  cigarettes in vending machines. No person, firm, partnership, company or
    5  corporation  shall  operate  a  vending  machine which dispenses tobacco
    6  products, herbal cigarettes or electronic cigarettes unless such machine
    7  is located: (a) in a bar as defined in subdivision one of section  thir-
    8  teen  hundred  ninety-nine-n  of this chapter, or the bar area of a food
    9  service establishment with a valid, on-premises full liquor license; (b)
   10  in a private club; (c) in a tobacco business as defined  in  subdivision
   11  eight of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article; or (d)
   12  in a place of employment which has an insignificant portion of its regu-
   13  lar  workforce  comprised  of people under the age of eighteen years and
   14  only in such locations that are not accessible to  the  general  public;
   15  provided, however, that in such locations the vending machine is located
   16  in plain view and under the direct supervision and control of the person
   17  in  charge  of  the location or his or her designated agent or employee;
   18  PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT NO SUCH VENDING MACHINE SHALL BE WITHIN
   19  THREE HUNDRED FIFTY FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL,
   20  CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE OR OTHER PLACE OF WORSHIP.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   22  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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