Bill Text: NY S04999 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4999 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcoholic beverages within 1000 feet of schools and playgrounds; defines billboards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S04999 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04999-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4999
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 3, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, COMRIE -- 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 billboards
          advertising alcoholic beverages
          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
     2  section 397-b to read as follows:
     3    § 397-b.   Billboards advertising alcoholic  beverages.  No  billboard
     4  advertising any alcoholic beverage shall be erected or maintained within
     5  one  thousand  feet of (1) any public or private elementary or secondary
     6  school or (2) any playground adjacent to or within one thousand feet  of
     7  any  private  or  public elementary or secondary school. For purposes of
     8  this section, the term "billboard" shall include  any  billboard,  sign,
     9  notice,  poster,  display or other stationary device intended to attract
    10  or which does attract the attention of operators of  motor  vehicles  or
    11  pedestrians.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect one year after the date on which it
    13  shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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