Bill Text: NY A06889 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the public display of pornographic magazines or materials by street vendors in cities of one million or more; imposes a $100 fine for a first offense, a $250 fine for a second offense, and suspension of the vendor's license for a third or subsequent offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A06889 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06889-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6889
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ORTIZ, COLTON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting the display of
          pornographic magazines or materials by street vendors in cities of one
          million or more
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 410.05 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 410.05 Public display of pornographic magazines or materials by street
     4             vendors.
     5     1. It shall be unlawful for street vendors in cities of  one  million
     6  or more to display pornographic magazines or materials.
     7     2. For purposes of this section only, pornographic magazines or mate-
     8  rials,  are  defined  as  magazines  or materials showing acts of sexual
     9  intercourse or acts of sexual perversion.  This  section  shall  not  be
    10  construed as applying to bona fide medical photographs or materials.
    11     3.  A  violation of the provisions of subdivision one of this section
    12  shall be punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars, a second violation
    13  by a fine of two hundred fifty dollars, and for a  third  or  subsequent
    14  violation by suspension of such vendor's license.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    16  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10920-01-9