Requires retailers of electronic cigarettes, not otherwise registered with the department of taxation and finance to sell tobacco products, to register with the department of health.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7139
IN SENATE
April 30, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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 the registration
of vendors of electronic cigarettes
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. Registration of vendors of electronic cigarettes. Any
4 person selling or offering for sale electronic cigarettes that is not
5 otherwise registered with the department of taxation and finance to sell
6 tobacco products as required by article twenty of the tax law and the
7 regulations adopted pursuant thereto, shall register with the depart-
8 ment. The commissioner shall adopt regulations for the establishment of
9 a registry and to ensure compliance with the provisions of this section.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect the first day of the month commencing
11 after the one hundred eightieth day after this act shall have become a
12 law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amend-
13 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
14 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to
15 be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14832-02-4
