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Senate Bill S1581

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits the vending machine sale of tobacco products within 350 feet of a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship

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2009-S1581 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1399-dd, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S2102, S6198
2013-2014: S3222
2015-2016: S2790
2017-2018: S2678
2019-2020: S4710
2021-2022: S5219
2023-2024: S6395
2025-2026: S4290

2009-S1581 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2009-S1581 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1581 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1581

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 3, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- 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:

  Section  1.  Section  1399-dd  of the public health law, as amended by
chapter 13 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S 1399-dd. Sale of tobacco products or herbal  cigarettes  in  vending
machines.  No  person,  firm,  partnership, company or corporation shall
operate a vending machine which dispenses  tobacco  products  or  herbal
cigarettes  unless  such  machine is located: (a) in a bar as defined in
subdivision one of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-n of this  chap-
ter,  or  the  bar  area  of  a food service establishment with a valid,
on-premises full liquor license; (b) in a private club; (c) in a tobacco
business as defined in subdivision eight  of  section  thirteen  hundred
ninety-nine-aa  of  this  article; or (d) in a place of employment which
has an insignificant portion  of  its  regular  workforce  comprised  of
people  under  the age of eighteen years and only in such locations that
are not accessible to the general public;  provided,  however,  that  in
such  locations  the  vending machine is located in plain view and under
the direct supervision and control  of  the  person  in  charge  of  the
location  or his or her designated agent or employee; PROVIDED, FURTHER,
HOWEVER, THAT NO SUCH VENDING MACHINE  SHALL  BE  WITHIN  THREE  HUNDRED
FIFTY FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL, CHURCH, SYNA-
GOGUE OR OTHER PLACE OF WORSHIP.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07321-01-9

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