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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10141--B
                                                                   R. R. 239
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       May 9, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Health  -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee -- amended on the special order of third

          reading,  ordered  reprinted  as  amended,  retaining its place on the
          special order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
          to prohibiting smoking within 100 feet of the entrances  or  exits  of
          any public or private educational institutions
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 1399-o of the  public  health  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke within one
     4  hundred  feet  of the entrances, exits or outdoor areas of any public or
     5  private elementary or secondary schools;  provided,  however,  that  the

     6  provisions  of  this  subdivision  shall not apply to smoking in a resi-
     7  dence, or within the real property boundary lines  of  such  residential
     8  real  property. The provisions of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-p
     9  of this article shall not apply to this subdivision.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 409 of the education law, as amended  by
    11  chapter 13 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
    12    2.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any other law, rule or regu-
    13  lation, tobacco use shall not be  permitted  and  no  person  shall  use
    14  tobacco  on  school grounds. "School grounds" means any building, struc-
    15  ture and surrounding outdoor  grounds,  including  entrances  or  exits,
    16  contained within a public or private pre-school, nursery school, elemen-

    17  tary or secondary school's legally defined property boundaries as regis-
    18  tered in a county clerk's office.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14350-07-2