Int. No. 642-A

By Council Members Dickens, Brewer, Foster, James, Liu, Palma, Seabrook, Sears, Weprin, White Jr., de Blasio, Arroyo, Stewart, Crowley, Gonzalez, Vacca, Mitchell, Koppell, Eugene, Lappin, Gennaro, Garodnick, Ferreras, Jackson and Reyna

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting smoking on and around hospital grounds.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.  Section 17-502 of chapter 5 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision mm to read as follows:

mm. “Hospital”, for the purposes of paragraph 6 of subdivision c of section 17-503, shall mean a general hospital as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law, diagnostic center and treatment center as defined in section 751.1 of part seven hundred fifty one of title ten of the New York codes, rules and regulations and residential health care facilities as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law.

nn. “Hospital grounds” means the outdoor grounds contained within a hospital’s legally defined property boundaries.

§2. Subdivision c of section 17-503 of chapter 5 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 6 to read as follows:

6. Hospital grounds, within fifteen feet of any hospital entrance or exit and within fifteen feet of the entrance to or exit from any hospital grounds.

§3. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.

AS

LS # 2845

6/22/09