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Senate Bill S2108

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale, rental or display of indecent material within 200 feet of a school or place of worship

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2011-S2108 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
S1323

2011-S2108 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits any person, firm, or corporation from selling, offering for sale, renting, offering to rent, or displaying indecent material within two hundred feet of any public or private primary or secondary school, church, synagogue, or other place of worship.

2011-S2108 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S2108 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2108

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 18, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- 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 prohibiting the
  sale or rental of indecent material near a school or place of worship

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

  Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
397-b to read as follows:
  S  397-B. SALE OF INDECENT MATERIAL NEAR A SCHOOL OR PLACE OF WORSHIP.
IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION TO SELL,  OFFER
FOR  SALE,  RENT,  OFFER  TO  RENT  OR  TO DISPLAY INDECENT MATERIAL, AS
DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 235.21 OF THE  PENAL  LAW,  WITHIN
TWO  HUNDRED  FEET OF ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PRIMARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL,
CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE, OR OTHER PLACE OF WORSHIP.
  S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06681-01-1

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