STATE OF NEW YORK
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5917--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 9, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO, CRESPO, ARROYO, PALUMBO, HOOPER, DAVI-
LA, SKOUFIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LAWRENCE, ROBINSON --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the administrative code of the
city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the smoking of tobacco
products in or near after-school programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1399-o of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke within one
4 hundred feet of the entrances, exits or outdoor areas of any after-
5 school program licensed or registered pursuant to section three hundred
6 ninety of the social services law; provided, however, that the
7 provisions of this subdivision shall only apply on those days and during
8 those hours in which such after-school programs are operational; and
9 provided, further, that the provisions of this subdivision shall not
10 apply to smoking in a residence, or within the real property boundary
11 lines of such residential real property.
12 § 2. Section 1399-p of the public health law is amended by adding a
13 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
14 3. The provisions of this section shall apply to after-school programs
15 that are subject to the provisions of subdivision four of section thir-
16 teen hundred ninety-nine-o of this article, provided that signs posted
17 pursuant to this subdivision shall specify the specific time period
18 during which smoking shall be prohibited.
19 § 3. Section 21-120.1 of the administrative code of the city of New
20 York, as added by local law number 31 of the city of New York for the
21 year 2000, is amended by adding a new subdivision i to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 i. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke within one
2 hundred feet of the entrances, exits or outdoor areas of any after-
3 school program licensed pursuant to this section; provided, however,
4 that the provisions of this subdivision shall only apply on those days
5 and during those hours in which such after-school programs are opera-
6 tional; and provided that the provisions of this subdivision shall not
7 apply to smoking in a residence, or within the real property boundary
8 lines of such residential real property. Signs may be posted, pursuant
9 to subdivision three of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-p of the
10 public health law, specifying the specific time period during which
11 smoking shall be prohibited.
12 § 4. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
