Bill Text: NY A00404 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of electrically conductive balloons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A00404 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00404-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           404

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
          sale of certain balloons

          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-k to read as follows:
     3    §  399-k. Prohibit the sale of certain balloons. 1. It shall be unlaw-
     4  ful for any person, firm,    partnership  or  corporation  to  knowingly
     5  import,  sell,  offer  for  sale,  manufacture, distribute, transport or
     6  otherwise market any balloon  or  other  inflatable  object  made  of  a
     7  conductive  material,  including but not limited to mylar, filled with a
     8  gas which is lighter than air without:
     9    (a) a weight affixed to such object which  prevents  the  object  from
    10  being lighter than air;
    11    (b) a warning statement attached to such object; or
    12    (c)  identification  information  of  the  manufacturer printed on the
    13  object.
    14    2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,  partnership  or  corpo-
    15  ration  to knowingly import, sell, offer for sale, manufacture, distrib-
    16  ute, transport or otherwise  market  any  balloon  or  other  inflatable
    17  object  which  has  attached  an electrically conductive string, tether,
    18  streamer, or other electrically conductive appurtenance.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00205-01-3