Bill Text: NY S08817 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8817

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of tobacco products and vapor products within five hundred feet of a public or private school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-15 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08817-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8817

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 15, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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  prohibiting  the
          sale  of  tobacco products and vapor products within five hundred feet
          of a public or private school

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  1399-cc-1 to read as follows:
     3    §  1399-cc-1.  Sale  of   tobacco   products   and   vapor   products;
     4  restrictions. 1. No tobacco product or vapor product shall be sold with-
     5  in five hundred feet of any public or private school.
     6    2. The measurements in subdivision one of this section are to be taken
     7  in  straight  lines  from  the nearest point of the property line of the
     8  parcel on which the school is located to the nearest point of the  prop-
     9  erty line of the parcel on which the business is located.
    10    3.  Violations  of  this section shall be enforced pursuant to section
    11  thirteen hundred ninety-nine-ff of this article, except that any  person
    12  may  submit  a  complaint  to  an  enforcement  officer reporting that a
    13  violation of this section has occurred.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14105-01-4