STATE OF NEW YORK
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5901
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to billboards
advertising alcoholic beverages
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new
2 section 397-b to read as follows:
3 § 397-b. Billboards advertising alcoholic beverages. No billboard
4 advertising any alcoholic beverage shall be erected or maintained within
5 one thousand feet of (1) any public or private elementary or secondary
6 school or (2) any playground adjacent to or within one thousand feet of
7 any private or public elementary or secondary school. For purposes of
8 this section, the term "billboard" shall include any billboard, sign,
9 notice, poster, display or other stationary device intended to attract
10 or which does attract the attention of operators of motor vehicles or
11 pedestrians.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after the date on which it
13 shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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