Assembly Bill A6643

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing the sale of cigarettes to individuals twenty-one years of age or older

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A6643 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1399-bb, 1399-cc & 1399-dd, Pub Health L; amd §17-714, NYC Ad Cd

2015-A6643 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing the sale of cigarettes to individuals twenty-one years of age or older; including herbal cigarettes.

2015-A6643 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6643

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 30, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. LINARES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law and the administrative code of the
  city of New York, in relation to authorizing the sale of cigarettes to
  individuals twenty-one years of age or older

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

  Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 1399-bb of the public health law,
as amended by chapter 508 of the laws of 2000, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  4.  The distribution of tobacco products or herbal cigarettes pursuant
to subdivision two of this section shall be made only to  an  individual
who demonstrates, through a driver's license or other photographic iden-
tification card issued by a government entity or educational institution
indicating  that  the individual is at least [eighteen] TWENTY-ONE years
of age. Such identification need not be required of any  individual  who
reasonably  appears  to  be at least twenty-five years of age; provided,
however, that such appearance shall not  constitute  a  defense  in  any
proceeding alleging the sale of a tobacco product or herbal cigarette to
an individual.
  S  2.  Subdivisions 2, 3 and 7 of section 1399-cc of the public health
law, as amended by chapter 542 of the laws of 2014, are amended to  read
as follows:
  2.  Any person operating a place of business wherein tobacco products,
herbal cigarettes, liquid nicotine, shisha or electronic cigarettes, are
sold or offered for sale  is  prohibited  from  selling  such  products,
herbal  cigarettes,  liquid  nicotine,  shisha, electronic cigarettes or
smoking paraphernalia to individuals under [eighteen]  TWENTY-ONE  years
of  age,  and  shall post in a conspicuous place a sign upon which there
shall be imprinted the following statement, "SALE OF CIGARETTES, CIGARS,
CHEWING TOBACCO, POWDERED TOBACCO, SHISHA  OR  OTHER  TOBACCO  PRODUCTS,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10211-01-5
              

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