STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7500 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to billboards advertising alcoholic beverages The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 397-c to read as follows: 3 § 397-c. Billboards advertising alcoholic beverages. No billboard 4 advertising any alcoholic beverage shall be erected or maintained within 5 one thousand feet of: 6 1. any public or private elementary or secondary school; or 7 2. any playground adjacent to or within one thousand feet of any 8 private or public elementary or secondary school. 9 For purposes of this section, the term "billboard" shall include any 10 billboard, sign, notice, poster, display or other stationary device 11 intended to attract or which does attract the attention of operators of 12 motor vehicles or pedestrians. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 14 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10757-01-5