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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6325
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
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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