S02138 Summary:
| BILL NO | S02138 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | SANDERS |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §1399-o-1, Pub Health L | |
| Enacts the "Smoke Free Parks Act of 2019"; prohibits smoking in public parks. | |
S02138 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2138 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the "Smoke Free Parks Act of 2019" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "smoke free 2 parks act of 2019". 3 § 2. Section 1399-o-1 of the public health law is amended by adding a 4 new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 5 3. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke in any 6 public park in this state. The governing body of a municipality or poli- 7 tical subdivision which operates or maintains a public park or the state 8 agency or other entity which operates or maintains a state park must 9 display a sign at the entrance of such public park stating "All New York 10 State Parks are now Smoke-Free Parks". Any person who violates the 11 provisions of this subdivision shall be subject to a fine of not more 12 than five hundred dollars. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07106-01-9