Assembly Bill A4536

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale of dry ice to individuals under eighteen years of age

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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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2023-A4536 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5871
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-jj, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10126, S8098
2019-2020: A3906, S4559
2021-2022: A2455, S4797

2023-A4536 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale of dry ice to individuals under eighteen years of age; provides a violation shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.

2023-A4536 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4536
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
   sale of dry ice to individuals under eighteen years of age
 
   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
 399-jj to read as follows:
   §  399-JJ. PROHIBITS THE SALE OF DRY ICE TO INDIVIDUALS UNDER EIGHTEEN
 YEARS OF AGE. 1. NO PERSON, CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP OR LIMITED  LIABIL-
 ITY  COMPANY  SHALL KNOWINGLY SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE DRY ICE TO AN INDI-
 VIDUAL UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
   2. ANY PERSON, CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP OR LIMITED  LIABILITY  COMPANY
 SELLING  OR  OFFERING  FOR SALE DRY ICE SHALL REQUIRE PROOF OF LEGAL AGE
 PRIOR TO ALLOWING AN INDIVIDUAL TO PURCHASE DRY ICE. 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
 DRY ICE TO AN INDIVIDUAL UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
   3.  ANY  PERSON, CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP OR LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
 WHICH VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION  SHALL  BE  SUBJECT  TO  A
 CIVIL PENALTY OF NOT MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS PER VIOLATION.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06430-01-3

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