STATE OF NEW YORK
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8223
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 12, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to advertising
billboards on state owned property
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 section
2 397-b to read as follows:
3 § 397-b. Billboards advertising inappropriate content to minors on
4 state owned property. 1. No billboard advertising that is inappropriate
5 for minors shall be erected or maintained on the property of or under
6 the authority of the state.
7 2. For purposes of this section:
8 a. "Billboard" shall include any billboard, sign, notice, poster,
9 display or other stationary device intended to attract or which does
10 attract the attention of operators of motor vehicles or pedestrians.
11 b. "Inappropriate for minors" shall mean sexual behavior, sexually
12 provocative, salacious, or suggestive behavior, adult material, nudity,
13 or partial nudity.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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