Relates to increasing penalties for certain violations relating to the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products; requires revocation of license to sell lottery tickets and revocation of a liquor license.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4973
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the tax law and the alcoholic beverage control law, in
relation to penalties for violations relating to the sale of ciga-
rettes and tobacco products
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision h of section 1607 of the tax
2 law, as amended by chapter 162 of the laws of 2002, is amended and a new
3 paragraph 3 is added to read as follows:
4 2. A license shall be revoked for [one year] three years upon notifi-
5 cation to the division by the commissioner of health of a lottery sales
6 agent's [fourth] second violation of article thirteen-F of the public
7 health law, or a second violation of section eighteen hundred fourteen
8 of this chapter, within a [three] five year period.
9 3. The division must revoke a license for a minimum of three years for
10 a second suspension or any revocation of a retail license pursuant to
11 section four hundred eighty-a of this chapter.
12 § 2. Section 119 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by
13 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
14 6. The liquor authority must revoke a retail license or permit for
15 sale at a premises licensed upon notification to the liquor authority by
16 the commissioner of taxation and finance of a revocation of a license to
17 sell cigarettes or tobacco products pursuant to section four hundred
18 eighty-a of the tax law.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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