STATE OF NEW YORK
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2909
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 30, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to sale of tobacco
products in pharmacies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 1399-dd-1 to read as follows:
3 § 1399-dd-1. Sale of tobacco products in pharmacies. No person shall
4 sell tobacco products in a pharmacy or in a retail establishment, if:
5 1. A pharmacy as a department, as such term is defined in paragraph f
6 of subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred eight of the education
7 law, is wholly contained within such establishment; or
8 2. Customers of the pharmacy must pass through a corridor or an area
9 owned, leased or controlled by the retail establishment and used exclu-
10 sively to access the pharmacy.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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