Bill Text: NY A06941 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits the sale of beer at retail on Sundays.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-13 - signed chap.524 [A06941 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06941-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6941

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          permitting  the  sale  of  beer  at  retail  on Sundays; and to repeal
          certain provisions of the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law  relating
          thereto

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 105-a of the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law  is
     2  REPEALED.
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  4  of section 34 of the alcoholic beverage control
     4  law, as added by chapter 522 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read  as
     5  follows:
     6    4.  No  tasting  shall  be  held  during  the  hours prohibited by the
     7  provisions of [sections] section  one  hundred  five  [and  one  hundred
     8  five-a] of this chapter.
     9    § 3. Subdivision (d) of section 54-b of the alcoholic beverage control
    10  law,  as added by chapter 232 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
    11  follows:
    12    (d) No tasting shall be  held  during  the  hours  prohibited  by  the
    13  provisions  of  [sections]  section  one  hundred  five [and one hundred
    14  five-a] of this chapter.
    15    § 4. Subdivision (d) of section 59-a of the alcoholic beverage control
    16  law, as added by chapter 232 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read  as
    17  follows:
    18    (d)  No  tasting  shall  be  held  during  the hours prohibited by the
    19  provisions of section one hundred five [and one hundred five-a] of  this
    20  chapter.
    21    §  5. Subdivision 6 of section 117-a of the alcoholic beverage control
    22  law is REPEALED.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 6. Subdivision 4 of section 130 of the  alcoholic  beverage  control
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 186 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    4.  In the city of New York, a summons shall be issued for a violation
     5  of the provisions of subdivision fourteen of section one  hundred  [and]
     6  five[,  section  one hundred and five-a] and subdivision five of section
     7  one hundred [and] six of this chapter in the same manner as provided  by
     8  subdivision  h of section one hundred [and] sixteen of the New York city
     9  criminal courts act.
    10    § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.