Prohibits sale of tobacco products in the commissaries or canteens of correctional facilities and requires a rule to prohibit possession of tobacco by an inmate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE, MILLER, CROUCH -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to banning tobacco
products from correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 26 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 487
2 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 26. Establishment of commissaries or canteens in correctional insti-
4 tutions. The commissioner may authorize the head of any institution in
5 the department to establish a commissary or a canteen in such institu-
6 tion for the use and benefit of inmates. The moneys received by the head
7 of the institution as profits from the sales of the commissary or
8 canteen shall be deposited in a special fund to be known as the commis-
9 sary or canteen fund and such funds shall be used for the general
10 purposes of the institution subject to the provisions of section fifty-
11 three of the state finance law. Tobacco products shall not be sold or
12 distributed from any commissary or canteen in such institutions. The
13 commissioner shall amend rule 113.9 of section 270.2 of the New York
14 codes, rules and regulations to prohibit the possession of any tobacco
15 products by an inmate.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02864-01-5
