Bill Text: NY A00597 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to license and permit applications; requires applicants for such licenses or permits to be furnished with a receipt for the appropriate fee once it is paid in full; requires the authority's public website to be updated daily with a list of all open license and permit applications.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-12-22 - approval memo.90 [A00597 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00597-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 597 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to license and permit applications The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 110-c of the alcoholic beverage control law, as 2 added by chapter 340 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 110-c. Public license query. 1. The authority shall make available 4 to the public all digitally archived information pertaining to any 5 conditions it imposes on the operation of a premises licensed by the 6 authority pursuant to this chapter, including but not necessarily limit- 7 ed to information pertaining to the hours during which the licensed 8 premises is allowed to operate, the maximum permitted occupancy of the 9 licensed premises, and any special conditions imposed by the authority 10 on the licensed premises. 11 2. The authority shall make available to the public on its public 12 website a daily updated list of all open license and permit applications 13 received by the authority, in the order that they are received. Such 14 list shall utilize the serial, certificate or other identifying number 15 assigned by the authority, as provided by subdivision one of section one 16 hundred fourteen-a of this article, to provide the applicant with infor- 17 mation on the status of their application's review. Such list on the 18 authority's public website shall include, but not be limited to, the 19 following information: the name and complete address of the applicant; 20 the county of the applicant; the license type and class the applicant is 21 seeking; the date such application has been received and if any license 22 or permit fee has been paid; based on the date submitted, an estimated 23 timeframe, in weeks, for an application final determination; if the 24 initial timeframe needs to be revised, then modified timeframe going EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01294-01-1A. 597 2 1 forward shall be posted and denoted in the same manner; and if the 2 authority has issued any temporary permit or license for the applicant's 3 premises; and the final date of an applications determination. 4 3. The authority shall maintain a record of the number of licenses or 5 permits applied for and the length of time required for the approval or 6 denial of such licenses or permits on its public website. Such records 7 shall be updated at least monthly by the authority. 8 4. If an applicant's estimated time for a final application determi- 9 nation is modified from the original estimate as provided for in subdi- 10 vision one of section one hundred fourteen-a of this article, then the 11 authority shall immediately notify the applicant. 12 § 2. Section 114-a of the alcoholic beverage control law, as added by 13 chapter 361 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: 14 § 114-a. License or permit issuance and registration approval. 1. The 15 authority upon acceptance of any payment by an applicant for a license 16 or permit issued under this chapter shall furnish such applicant with a 17 receipt within fifteen days indicating that the appropriate license or 18 permit fee has been accepted and paid in full. Such receipt shall 19 include the date of acceptance of such license or permit application fee 20 as well as an estimated length of time, based on an initial review of 21 the application for a license or permit, necessary for the authority to 22 review and process such application as required for the approval or 23 denial of such license or permit. Such receipt shall include a unique 24 serial, certification or other identifying number to be assigned by the 25 authority to the applicant for queries about such license or permit 26 application status. 27 2. No license or permit shall be issued and no registration approved 28 pursuant to this chapter until such time as any check or draft submitted 29 for payment of the required fee has been honored by the payor financial 30 institution, provided, however, that this provision shall not apply in 31 the case of a certified check, bank officers' check or money order. 32 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 33 have become a law; provided, however that section one of this act shall 34 take effect one year after it shall have become a law. Effective imme- 35 diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 36 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 37 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
