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Assembly Bill A4557

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to restricting the packaging and sale of confectionery and candy products

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2021-A4557 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §396-ff, Gen Bus L

2021-A4557 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the packaging and sale of confectionery and candy products which are facsimiles of tobacco products.

2021-A4557 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4557
 
                        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 Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to restricting the
   packaging and sale of confectionery and candy products
 
   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
 396-ff to read as follows:
   §  396-FF. RESTRICTIONS ON THE PACKAGING AND SALE OF CONFECTIONERY AND
 CANDY PRODUCTS. 1. NO PERSON, FIRM  OR  CORPORATION  SHALL  MANUFACTURE,
 SELL  OR HOLD FOR SALE CONFECTIONERY OR CANDY PRODUCTS WHICH ARE MADE AS
 A FACSIMILE OF A CIGARETTE, PIPE OR CIGAR AND ARE  CLEARLY  DESIGNED  TO
 SIMULATE OR MIMIC A TOBACCO PRODUCT.
   2. NO PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION MANUFACTURING OR SELLING CONFECTION-
 ERY  OR CANDY PRODUCTS SHALL USE, FOR ADVERTISING OR PACKAGING PURPOSES,
 ANY NAME, SYMBOL, DEVICE OR OTHER IDENTIFYING MARK WHICH IS  SIMILAR  TO
 THE NAME, SYMBOL, DEVICE OR MARK USED IN ADVERTISING OR SALE OF A TOBAC-
 CO PRODUCT.
   3.  VIOLATION  OF  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE AN OFFENSE
 PUNISHABLE BY A FINE NOT LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS NO MORE THAN FIVE
 HUNDRED DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on  the  first  day  of  January  next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07972-01-1

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