STATE OF NEW YORK
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6970--B
IN SENATE
March 10, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting smok-
ing within 100 feet of the entrances or exits of any public or associ-
ation library
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 5 to read as follows:
3 5. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke within one
4 hundred feet of the entrances, exits or outdoor areas of any public or
5 association library as defined in subdivision two of section two hundred
6 fifty-three of the education law; provided, however, that the provisions
7 of this subdivision shall not apply to smoking in a residence, or within
8 the real property boundary lines of such residential real property. The
9 provisions of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-p of this article
10 shall not apply to this subdivision.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14244-05-6
