Prohibits the sale of dry ice to individuals under eighteen years of age; provides a violation shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5871
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 20, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
sale of dry ice to individuals under eighteen years of age
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
2 399-jj to read as follows:
3 § 399-jj. Prohibits the sale of dry ice to individuals under eighteen
4 years of age. 1. No person, corporation, partnership or limited liabil-
5 ity company shall knowingly sell or offer for sale dry ice to an indi-
6 vidual under eighteen years of age.
7 2. Any person, corporation, partnership or limited liability company
8 selling or offering for sale dry ice shall require proof of legal age
9 prior to allowing an individual to purchase dry ice. Such identification
10 need not be required of any individual who reasonably appears to be at
11 least twenty-five years of age, provided, however, that such appearance
12 shall not constitute a defense in any proceeding alleging the sale of
13 dry ice to an individual under eighteen years of age.
14 3. Any person, corporation, partnership or limited liability company
15 which violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
16 civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars per violation.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06430-01-3
