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                                   6882
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to public display  or
   advertisements of cannabis products
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. 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:
   § 1399-dd-1. Public display of tobacco product  and  electronic  ciga-
 rette  advertisements  and  smoking  paraphernalia  prohibited.  1.  For
 purposes of this section:
   (a)  "Advertisement"  means  words,  pictures,  photographs,  symbols,
 graphics or visual images of any kind, or any combination thereof, which
 bear a health warning required by federal statute, the purpose or effect
 of  which  is to identify a brand of a tobacco product, electronic ciga-
 rette, or vapor product intended or reasonably expected to be used  with
 or  for  the  consumption of nicotine, a trademark of a tobacco product,
 electronic cigarette, or vapor product intended or  reasonably  expected
 to  be  used  with or for the consumption of nicotine [or], a trade name
 associated exclusively with a tobacco product, electronic cigarette,  or
 vapor product intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the
 consumption of nicotine or to promote the use or sale of a tobacco prod-
 uct,  electronic  cigarette,  or  vapor  product  intended or reasonably
 expected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine,  OR  WORDS,
 PICTURES,  PHOTOGRAPHS,  SYMBOLS, GRAPHICS OR VISUAL IMAGES OF ANY KIND,
 OR ANY COMBINATION THEREOF WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED  WITH  CANNABIS  USE  OR
 CANNABIS  PRODUCTS  AS  DEFINED IN SECTION THREE OF THE CANNABIS LAW AND
 WHICH ARE INTENDED OR REASONABLY EXPECTED TO PROMOTE THE  SALE  OF  SUCH
 PRODUCTS.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (b)  "Smoking paraphernalia" means any pipe, water pipe, hookah, roll-
 ing papers, electronic cigarette, vaporizer or any other device,  equip-
 ment or apparatus designed for the inhalation of tobacco or nicotine.
   (c)  "Vapor  product"  means  any vapor product, as defined by section
 thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article, intended or  reasonably
 expected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine.
   (d)  "Tobacco  products" shall have the same meaning as in subdivision
 five of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article.
   (e) "Electronic cigarette" shall have the same meaning as in  subdivi-
 sion  thirteen  of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of this arti-
 cle.
   2. (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  ADVERTISEMENTS FOR ANY 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 exteri-
 or 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, provided that  within  New  York
 city  such  prohibitions  shall only apply within five hundred feet of a
 school.
   (b) Any person, corporation,  partnership,  sole  proprietor,  limited
 partnership,  association  or  any other business entity in violation of
 this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more  than  five
 [hundred] THOUSAND dollars for a first violation and not more than [one]
 TEN thousand dollars for a second or subsequent violation.
   3.  AN  ENFORCEMENT  OFFICER,  OR  THE DEPARTMENT WHERE NO ENFORCEMENT
 OFFICER HAS BEEN DESIGNATED, SHALL CONDUCT RANDOM INSPECTIONS ON A QUAR-
 TERLY BASIS OF EACH RETAIL DEALER LICENSED TO SELL  CIGARETTES,  TOBACCO
 PRODUCTS,  OR VAPOR PRODUCTS AT ESTABLISHMENTS LOCATED WITHIN THE JURIS-
 DICTION OF SUCH ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OR OFFICE, TO  DETERMINE  COMPLIANCE
 WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.