Bill Text: NY A07849 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the sale of tickets for charity sponsored events not taking place on the premises of a licensee to sell alcoholic beverages not constituting gambling.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to economic development [A07849 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07849-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7849
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 28, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Economic Development
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to char-
         ity sponsored events
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section  106  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
    2  control  law,  as amended by chapter 919 of the laws of 1986, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    6. No person licensed to sell  alcoholic  beverages  shall  suffer  or
    5  permit  any  gambling on the licensed premises, or suffer or permit such
    6  premises to become disorderly. The use of the licensed premises, or  any
    7  part thereof, for the sale of lottery tickets, playing of bingo or games
    8  of chance, [or] as a simulcast facility or simulcast theater pursuant to
    9  the  racing,  pari-mutuel  wagering and breeding law, OR FOR THE SALE OF
   10  TICKETS RELATED TO A CHARITY SPONSORED EVENT NOT  TAKING  PLACE  ON  THE
   11  PREMISES  OF  THE  LICENSEE, when duly authorized and lawfully conducted
   12  thereon, shall not constitute gambling within the meaning of this subdi-
   13  vision.  IN THE CASE OF A CHARITY SPONSORED EVENT, THE LICENSEE SHALL BE
   14  PERMITTED TWO SUCH EVENTS ANNUALLY, AND THE LICENSEE  SHALL  NOTIFY  THE
   15  AUTHORITY  OF SUCH EVENT THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE SALE OF ANY SUCH TICK-
   16  ETS. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS  SUBDIVISION,  CHARITABLE  ORGANIZATION  SHALL
   17  MEAN  A CHARITY ORGANIZED UNDER THE NON-PROFIT OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAWS OF
   18  THIS STATE, AND POSSESSING A FEDERAL TAX EXEMPTION UNDER SECTION  501(C)
   19  OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF THE UNITED STATES.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11280-01-5