File #: Int 0002-1998-A    Version: * Name: Tobacco Products Advertising, Children
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 1/22/1998
Enactment date: 3/13/1998 Law number: 1998/010
Title: A Local Law to amend local law number three for the year 1998 which prohibits or restricts the advertisement and promotion of tobacco products to protect children, in relation to the effective date of such local law and to amend the building code to eliminate criminal penalties for violations of such local law.
Sponsors: Peter F. Vallone, Victor L. Robles, Kenneth K. Fisher, John Fusco, Thomas V. Ognibene, Una Clarke, Lucy Cruz, Martin Malave-Dilan, Wendell Foster, Kathryn E. Freed, Julia Harrison, Lloyd Henry, Howard L. Lasher, Sheldon S. Leffler, Guillermo Linares, Helen M. Marshall, Stanley E. Michels, Mary Pinkett, Morton Povman, Annette M. Robinson, Archie W. Spigner, Alphonse Stabile, Lawrence A. Warden, Juanita E. Watkins, Thomas White, Mark Green, (by request of the Mayor), Anthony Weiner, Adolfo Carrion
Council Member Sponsors: 29
Attachments: 1. Local Law 10
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
3/16/1998*Peter F. Vallone City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/13/1998*Peter F. Vallone Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/13/1998*Peter F. Vallone Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Peter F. Vallone City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Peter F. Vallone City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/17/1998*Peter F. Vallone Legislative Documents Unit Reprnt Amnd Item Laid on Desk   Action details Meeting details Not available
2/17/1998*Peter F. Vallone Committee on Youth Services Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/17/1998*Peter F. Vallone Committee on Youth Services Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/17/1998*Peter F. Vallone Committee on Youth Services Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 2-A
 
By The Speaker (Council Member Vallone) and Council Members Robles, Fisher, Fusco, Ognibene, Clarke, Cruz, Malave-Dilan, Foster, Freed, Harrison, Henry, Lasher, Leffler, Linares, Marshall, Michels, Pinkett, Povman, Robinson, Spigner, Stabile, Warden, Watkins, White and the Public Advocate (Mr. Green) (by request of the Mayor); also Council Members Weiner and Carrion
 
A Local Law to amend local law number three for the year 1998 which prohibits or restricts the advertisement and promotion of tobacco products to protect children, in relation to the effective date of such local law and to amend the building code to eliminate criminal penalties for violations of such local law.
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1. Section 11 of local law number three for the year 1998 is hereby amended to read as follows:
      §11. This local law shall take effect [sixty] one hundred eighty days after it shall have become a law except that the commissioner of buildings may promulgate rules and take other administrative actions necessary to implement its provisions prior to such effective date.
      §2. Article 17-A of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 27-508.7 to read as follows:
      § 27-508.7 Penalties. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 26-122, 26-125 and 26-248 of this code, a violation of this article shall not subject any person to liability for a criminal offense.
      §3. This local law shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
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Note: Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] to be omitted.