The New York City Council - File #: T2026-2791

• File #: T2026-2791
• Version: *
• Name: The department of consumer and worker protection’s authority to seal the premises of electronic cigarette retailers.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Introduced
• Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
• On agenda: 11/12/2026
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the department of consumer and worker protection’s authority to seal the premises of electronic cigarette retailers
• Sponsors: Mercedes Narcisse
• Council Member Sponsors: 1
• Summary: This bill would grant the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection the authority to seal the premises of electronic cigarette retailers if such retailers repeatedly sell electronic cigarettes without a license, sell electronic cigarettes to people under the age of twenty-one, or sell flavored electronic cigarettes.

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
11/12/2026	*	Mercedes Narcisse	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No.

By Council Member Narcisse

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the department of consumer and worker protection’s authority to seal the premises of electronic cigarette retailers

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 20-562 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:

d. The commissioner, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard, shall be authorized to order the sealing of any premises where any person has been found:

1. To have engaged in unlicensed activities in violation of this subchapter on at least 2 occasions within a 3-year period; or

2. To have violated either subdivision a-1 of section 17-706 or section 17-715 on at least 3 occasions within a 3-year period.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

MLL

LSR #15512

11/5/2026 11:22 AM