Bill Text: NY A06798 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite to any person under the age of twenty-one.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-07 - substituted by s582 [A06798 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06798-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6798

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. LEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
          sale  of sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite to any person under the age
          of twenty-one

          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-hhh to read as follows:
     3    §  399-hhh.  Sale of sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite.  1. No person,
     4  corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm or  any  other
     5  business entity doing business within this state shall sell or offer for
     6  sale  sodium  nitrate  or  sodium nitrite to any person under the age of
     7  twenty-one.
     8    2. Any person, corporation, partnership,  limited  liability  company,
     9  firm, or any other business entity doing business within the state sell-
    10  ing, offering for sale, or distributing sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite
    11  shall  require  proof  of  legal  age prior to allowing an individual to
    12  purchase or receive a shipment of sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite. Such
    13  identification need not be required of  any  individual  who  reasonably
    14  appears to be at least thirty years of age, provided, however, that such
    15  appearance shall not constitute a defense in any proceeding alleging the
    16  sale  or distribution of sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite to an individ-
    17  ual under twenty-one years of age.
    18    3. Any person, corporation, partnership,  limited  liability  company,
    19  firm  or  any other business entity that violates the provisions of this
    20  section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than two hundred
    21  fifty dollars for an initial offense and  not  more  than  five  hundred
    22  dollars  for  the  second  and  each  subsequent  offense, provided this
    23  section shall not be construed to limit  any  other  criminal  or  civil

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02657-01-3
        A. 6798                             2

     1  liability  such  person,  corporation,  partnership,  limited  liability
     2  company, firm or other business entity may be subject to under law.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.