Bill Text: NY A02475 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the general business law, in relation to billboards advertising alcoholic beverages

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to economic development [A02475 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02475-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2475
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 16, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GREENE
         -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Economic  Development,
         Job Creation, Commerce and Industry
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general business law, in relation to billboards
         advertising alcoholic beverages
         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
    2  section 397-b to read as follows:
    3    S 397-B.   BILLBOARDS ADVERTISING ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGES.  NO  BILLBOARD
    4  ADVERTISING ANY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SHALL BE ERECTED OR MAINTAINED WITHIN
    5  ONE THOUSAND FEET OF:
    6    1.  ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL; OR
    7    2.  ANY  PLAYGROUND  ADJACENT  TO  OR  WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF ANY
    8  PRIVATE OR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL.
    9    FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "BILLBOARD" SHALL  INCLUDE  ANY
   10  BILLBOARD,  SIGN,  NOTICE,  POSTER,  DISPLAY  OR OTHER STATIONARY DEVICE
   11  INTENDED TO ATTRACT OR WHICH DOES ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF OPERATORS  OF
   12  MOTOR VEHICLES OR PEDESTRIANS.
   13    S  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
   14  law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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