Requires retailers of electronic cigarettes, or liquid nicotine, not otherwise registered with the department of taxation and finance to sell tobacco products, to register with such department.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4377--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. GALEF, LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the tax 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 tax law is amended by adding a new article 20-C to read
2 as follows:
3 ARTICLE 20-C
4 VENDORS OF ELECTRONIC
5 CIGARETTES
6 Section 492. Registration to vendors of electronic cigarettes.
7 § 492. Registration to vendors of electronic cigarettes. Any person
8 selling or offering for sale electronic cigarettes, as defined in subdi-
9 vision thirteen of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of the public
10 health law, or liquid nicotine, as defined in paragraph (e) of subdivi-
11 sion one of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-cc of the public health
12 law, that is not otherwise registered with the department to sell tobac-
13 co products as required by article twenty of this chapter and the regu-
14 lations adopted pursuant thereto, shall register with the department
15 pursuant to this section. The commissioner shall adopt regulations for
16 the establishment of such registration including standards for issuance,
17 renewal and revocation of such registration, and ensuring compliance
18 with the provisions of this section.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect the first day of the month commencing
20 after the one hundred eightieth day after this act shall have become a
21 law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amend-
22 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
23 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to
24 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.
LBD03152-03-7
