S 5108: Prohibits the sale of tobacco products and vapor products within five hundred feet of a public or private school.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5108 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 19, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 the sale of tobacco products and vapor products within five hundred feet of a public or private school The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 1399-cc-1 to read as follows: 3 § 1399-cc-1. Sale of tobacco products and vapor products; 4 restrictions. 1. No tobacco product or vapor product shall be sold with- 5 in five hundred feet of any public or private school. 6 2. The measurements in subdivision one of this section are to be taken 7 in straight lines from the nearest point of the property line of the 8 parcel on which the school is located to the nearest point of the prop- 9 erty line of the parcel on which the business is located. 10 3. Violations of this section shall be enforced pursuant to section 11 thirteen hundred ninety-nine-ff of this article, except that any person 12 may submit a complaint to an enforcement officer reporting that a 13 violation of this section has occurred. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05163-01-5