N.Y. GBS Law § 396-AAA
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Public display of tobacco and electronic cigarette advertisements and smoking paraphernalia prohibited
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§ 396-aaa. Public display of tobacco and electronic cigarette\nadvertisements and smoking paraphernalia prohibited. 1. For purposes of\nthis section:\n (a) "Advertisement" means words, pictures, photographs, symbols,\ngraphics or visual images of any kind, or any combination thereof, which\nbear a health warning required by federal statute, the purpose or effect\nof which is to identify a brand of a tobacco product, electronic\ncigarette, or vapor product intended or reasonably expected to be used\nwith or for the consumption of nicotine, a trademark of a tobacco\nproduct, electronic cigarette, or vapor product intended or reasonably\nexpected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine or a trade\nname associated exclusively with a tobacco product, electronic\ncigarette, or vapor product intended or reasonably expected to be used\nwith or for the consumption of nicotine, or to promote the use or sale\nof a tobacco product, electronic cigarette, or vapor product intended or\nreasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine.\n (b) "Smoking paraphernalia" means any pipe, water pipe, hookah,\nrolling papers, electronic cigarette, vaporizer or any other device,\nequipment or apparatus designed for the inhalation of tobacco or\nnicotine.\n (c) "Vapor product" means any vapor product, as defined by section\nthirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of the public health law, intended or\nreasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine.\n (d) "Tobacco products" shall have the same meaning as in subdivision\nfive of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of the public health\nlaw.\n (e) "Electronic cigarette" shall have the same meaning as in\nsubdivision thirteen of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of the\npublic health law.\n 2. (a) No person, corporation, partnership, sole proprietor, limited\npartnership, association or any other business entity may place, cause\nto be placed, maintain or to cause to be maintained, smoking\nparaphernalia or tobacco product, electronic cigarette, or vapor product\nintended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption\nof nicotine, advertisements in a store front or any exterior window or\nany door which is used for entry or egress by the public to the building\nor structure containing a place of business within one thousand five\nhundred feet of a school, provided that within New York city such\nprohibitions shall only apply within five hundred feet of a school.\n (b) Any person, corporation, partnership, sole proprietor, limited\npartnership, association or any other business entity in violation of\nthis section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than five\nhundred dollars for a first violation and not more than one thousand\ndollars for a second or subsequent violation.\n
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