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Assembly Bill A4544

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to restricting the public display of tobacco products and electronic cigarette advertisements and smoking paraphernalia near public libraries

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2021-A4544 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-d-1, Pub Health L; amd §396-aaa, Gen Bus L

2021-A4544 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Restricts the public display of tobacco products and electronic cigarette advertisements and smoking paraphernalia near public libraries.

2021-A4544 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4544
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the general business  law,  in
   relation  to  restricting  the  public display of tobacco products and
   electronic cigarette advertisements  and  smoking  paraphernalia  near
   public libraries

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 1399-dd-1 of  the
 public  health  law,  as added by section 13 of part EE of chapter 56 of
 the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) No person,  corporation,  partnership,  sole  proprietor,  limited
 partnership,  association  or any other business entity may place, cause
 to be placed, maintain or to cause to be maintained,  smoking  parapher-
 nalia  or  tobacco  product,  electronic  cigarette,  or  vapor  product
 intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for  the  consumption
 of  nicotine  advertisements  in a store front or exterior window or any
 door which is used for entry or egress by the public to the building  or
 structure  containing  a  place  of  business  within  one thousand five
 hundred feet of a school OR A PUBLIC LIBRARY, provided that  within  New
 York city such prohibitions shall only apply within five hundred feet of
 a school.
   §  2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 396-aaa of the general
 business law, as added by section 14 of part EE of  chapter  56  of  the
 laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  No  person,  corporation,  partnership,  sole proprietor, limited
 partnership, association or any other business entity may  place,  cause
 to  be  placed, maintain or to cause to be maintained, smoking parapher-
 nalia  or  tobacco  product,  electronic  cigarette,  or  vapor  product
 intended  or  reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption
 of nicotine, advertisements in a store front or any exterior  window  or

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

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