STATE OF NEW YORK
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6697--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
September 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. THOMAS, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting the
sale of certain refills for electronic cigarettes or electronic ciga-
rette cartridges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 1399-cc-1 to read as follows:
3 § 1399-cc-1. Sale of refillable electronic liquids, liquid nicotine or
4 e-liquids prohibited. 1. No person, firm, partnership, company, corpo-
5 ration or online seller shall sell, offer to sell or give away for any
6 purpose, an electronic liquid, liquid nicotine, or e-liquid used to
7 refill an electronic cigarette or electronic cigarette cartridge;
8 provided, however, that such prohibition shall not apply to any elec-
9 tronic liquid, liquid nicotine or e-liquid that is contained in a
10 tamper-proof cartridge that is prefilled and sealed by the manufacturer
11 and is sold, marketed, or intended for use in an electronic cigarette
12 and is not designed to be opened by the consumer.
13 2. Any person, firm, partnership, company, corporation or online sell-
14 er that violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
15 civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each separate
16 violation of this section. Such civil penalty shall be recovered by any
17 enforcement authority designated by a municipality or political subdivi-
18 sion in which such violation occurred.
19 3. For the purposes of this section, "liquid nicotine", "electronic
20 liquid", or "e-liquid" means a liquid composed of nicotine and other
21 chemicals which is sold as a product that may be used in an electronic
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 cigarette, as defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-cc of the
2 public health law.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.
