File #: Int 1669-2017    Version: * Name: Prohibiting new cigarette retailers near schools.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 7/20/2017
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting new cigarette retailers near schools
Sponsors: Annabel Palma, Karen Koslowitz, Helen K. Rosenthal
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would prohibit new retail cigarette dealer licenses from being issued to businesses that are less than 500 feet from a school. This ban would not apply to existing license holders in these areas, who would continue to be able to renew their licenses as long as they met all other requirements.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1669, 2. Int. No. 1669

Int. No. 1669

 

By Council Members Palma, Koslowitz and Rosenthal

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting new cigarette retailers near schools

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision d of section 20-202 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 97 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:

1. A license shall be issued to a person to conduct the business of a retail dealer for each place of business where such person engages in selling cigarettes in the city only where:

(A) an applicant for a license or renewal thereof meets all the requirements prescribed herein and any criteria in addition thereto established by the commissioner by rule as he or she deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter;

(B) an applicant satisfies the commissioner that such person is fit and able to conduct the business of a  retail dealer; [and]

(C) the commissioner has not received notification from the commissioner of finance or the commissioner of the department of health and mental hygiene that such applicant is not in full compliance with any provisions of chapter thirteen of title eleven of this code, or chapter forty of title eleven of this code relating to the sale of cigarettes or chapter seven of title seventeen of this code, or any rules promulgated by the commissioner of finance or the commissioner of the department of health and mental hygiene to effectuate the purposes of such chapters; and

(D) the applicable place of business of such applicant is located no less than 500 feet from any public or non-public school serving children in any grade from kindergarten through high school.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

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