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Assembly Bill A1588

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires the installation and maintenance of lockout devices on lottery vending machines by licensed lottery sales agents to prevent use by minors

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2011-A1588 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1671
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1610, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2487, S3029
2013-2014: A3711, S5099
2015-2016: A2653
2017-2018: A1822
2019-2020: A4597
2021-2022: A3769
2023-2024: A3467

2011-A1588 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the installation of lockout devices on lottery vending machines by licensed agents to prevent use by minors.

2011-A1588 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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    S. 1671                                                  A. 1588

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                            January 11, 2011
                               ___________

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed,  and  when  printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Racing,
  Gaming and Wagering

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and  referred
  to the Committee on Ways and Means

AN  ACT  to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring security devices
  on lottery machines to prevent use by minors

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision a of section 1610 of the tax law, as added by
chapter 92 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
  a. No ticket shall be sold to any person under  the  age  of  eighteen
years, but this shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchase of a ticket
for  the  purpose  of making a gift by a person eighteen years of age or
older to a person less than that age. Any licensee or  the  employee  or
agent  of  any  licensee who sells or offers to sell a lottery ticket to
any person under the age of eighteen shall be guilty of  a  misdemeanor.
THE DIVISION SHALL REQUIRE THE INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A LOCKOUT
DEVICE  ON  ALL  LOTTERY  VENDING MACHINES BY THE LICENSED LOTTERY SALES
AGENTS WITH CONTROL OVER SUCH VENDING MACHINES TO PREVENT THEIR  USE  BY
PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02494-01-1

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