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Int 0321-2010

Modifying the prohibition of smoking around residential health care facilities.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Healthintroduced 2010-08-25

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2010-08-25Passed: 2013-12-31
Committee on HealthDepartment of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and EMS (health-related issues).

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13 passed · 37 died

This bill: 1224 days in committee

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Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2010-08-25 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2010-08-25 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2013-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2010-08-25 · 1:30 PM · Emigrant Savings Bank - 49-51 Chambers Street
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subdivision mm of section 17-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 50 for the year 2009, is amended to read as follows: mm. “Hospital” means, for [the] purposes of paragraph 6 of subdivision c of section 17-503. [shall mean] a general hospital as such term is defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law, a diagnostic center and a treatment center as such terms are defined in section 751.1 of part seven hundred fifty one of title ten of the New York codes, rules and regulations, and a residential health care [facilities] facility as such term is defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law. §2. Paragraph 6 of subdivision c of section 17-503 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended 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, except where a residential health care facility has established a designated area where smoking is permitted. §3. This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment. AMS/GJB LS # 1372 7/26/10