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Assembly Bill A9224

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale of tobacco products and vapor products within five hundred feet of a public or private school

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2023-A9224 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8817
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1399-cc-1, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A5976, S5108

2023-A9224 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale of tobacco products and vapor products within five hundred feet of a public or private school.

2023-A9224 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9224
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  prohibiting  the
   sale  of  tobacco products and vapor products within five hundred feet
   of a public or private school
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 1399-cc-1 to read as follows:
   §  1399-CC-1.  SALE  OF   TOBACCO   PRODUCTS   AND   VAPOR   PRODUCTS;
 RESTRICTIONS. 1. NO TOBACCO PRODUCT OR VAPOR PRODUCT SHALL BE SOLD WITH-
 IN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOL.
   2. THE MEASUREMENTS IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION ARE TO BE TAKEN
 IN  STRAIGHT  LINES  FROM  THE NEAREST POINT OF THE PROPERTY LINE OF THE
 PARCEL ON WHICH THE SCHOOL IS LOCATED TO THE NEAREST POINT OF THE  PROP-
 ERTY LINE OF THE PARCEL ON WHICH THE BUSINESS IS LOCATED.
   3.  VIOLATIONS  OF  THIS SECTION SHALL BE ENFORCED PURSUANT TO SECTION
 THIRTEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-FF OF THIS ARTICLE, EXCEPT THAT ANY  PERSON
 MAY  SUBMIT  A  COMPLAINT  TO  AN  ENFORCEMENT  OFFICER REPORTING THAT A
 VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION HAS OCCURRED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14105-01-4

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