STATE OF NEW YORK
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8375
IN SENATE
February 17, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. THOMAS -- 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 sodium nitrate
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
2 398-g to read as follows:
3 § 398-g. Sale of sodium nitrate prohibited. 1. No person, corpo-
4 ration, partnership, limited liability company, firm or any other busi-
5 ness entity shall sell, offer for sale, ship or cause to be shipped
6 sodium nitrate to any person in this state.
7 2. Any person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
8 firm or any other business entity that violates the provisions of this
9 section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than one thou-
10 sand dollars for an initial offense provided this section shall not be
11 construed to limit any other criminal or civil liability such person,
12 corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm or other busi-
13 ness entity may be subject to under law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth 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.
LBD14623-02-2
