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Assembly Bill A2653

2015-2016 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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2015-A2653 (ACTIVE) - Details

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
2011-2012: A1588
2013-2014: A3711
2017-2018: A1822
2019-2020: A4597
2021-2022: A3769
2023-2024: A3467

2015-A2653 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-A2653 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2653

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 20, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee 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.
                                                           LBD05466-01-5

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