Senate Bill S1998

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Prohibits any person from smoking at a playground

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S1998 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8155
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1399-o-1, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3242
2011-2012: S4401
2013-2014: S1449

2015-S1998 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits any person from smoking at a playground; provides a definition as to what constitutes a playground.

2015-S1998 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1998 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1998

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 21, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- 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 prohibiting  smok-
  ing at playgrounds

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 1399-o-1 of the public  health  law,  as  added  by
chapter 102 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  S  1399-o-1.  Smoking  restrictions; certain outdoor areas. 1. Smoking
shall not be permitted [and no  person  shall  smoke  during  the  hours
between  sunrise  and  sunset, when one or more persons under the age of
twelve are present at any playground] WITHIN FIFTY  FEET  OF  ANY  PLAY-
GROUND  AT  ANY TIME.  For the purposes of this section, the term "play-
ground" means an improved area designed, equipped,  and  set  aside  for
play of six or more children which is not intended for use as an athlet-
ic  playing  field  or athletic court, and shall include any play equip-
ment, surfacing, fencing, signs, internal pathways, internal land forms,
vegetation, and related structures. Playgrounds or playground  equipment
constructed upon one, two and three-family residential real property are
exempt  from  the  requirements of this section. [This section shall not
apply to any playground located within the city of New York.]
  2. No  police  officer,  peace  officer,  regulatory  officer  or  law
enforcement  official  may arrest[, ticket, stop or question] any person
based solely [or in part] on an alleged violation of subdivision one  of
this  section,  nor  may an alleged violation of subdivision one of this
section support probable cause to conduct any search or  limited  search
of any person or his or her immediate surroundings.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05214-01-5


              

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