Bill Text: NY A08524 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a municipality or community board to express an opinion before a license is granted to a person to sell liquor at retail for off-premises consumption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-05 - reported referred to codes [A08524 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A08524-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8524
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     July 13, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. MENG -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Economic Development
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
         licenses to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
    2  by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER, UPON RECEIPT
    4  OF AN APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE UNDER THIS SECTION OR AN APPLICATION FOR
    5  RENEWAL UNDER SECTION ONE HUNDRED NINE OF THIS  CHAPTER,  THE  APPLICANT
    6  SHALL NOTIFY THE CLERK OF THE VILLAGE, TOWN OR CITY, AS THE CASE MAY BE,
    7  BY  CERTIFIED  MAIL,  RETURN  RECEIPT REQUESTED, WHEREIN THE PROSPECTIVE
    8  LICENSED PREMISES IS TO BE LOCATED OR, IN THE CASE OF AN APPLICATION FOR
    9  RENEWAL, WHERE IT IS PRESENTLY LOCATED NOT LESS THAN THIRTY  DAYS  PRIOR
   10  TO THE SUBMISSION OF ITS APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE UNDER THIS SECTION OR
   11  FOR A RENEWAL THEREOF PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED NINE OF THIS CHAP-
   12  TER.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THE PRECEDING SENTENCE NOTIFICATION NEED ONLY
   13  BE GIVEN TO THE CLERK OF A VILLAGE WHEN SUCH PREMISES IS TO  BE  LOCATED
   14  WITHIN  THE  BOUNDARIES  OF  THE  VILLAGE.  IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE
   15  COMMUNITY BOARD ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED  OF
   16  THE  NEW YORK CITY CHARTER WITH JURISDICTION OVER THE AREA IN WHICH SUCH
   17  LICENSED PREMISES IS TO BE LOCATED SHALL BE CONSIDERED  THE  APPROPRIATE
   18  PUBLIC  BODY  TO WHICH NOTIFICATION SHALL BE GIVEN. SUCH MUNICIPALITY OR
   19  COMMUNITY BOARD, AS THE CASE MAY BE,  MAY  EXPRESS  AN  OPINION  FOR  OR
   20  AGAINST  THE  GRANTING OF SUCH LICENSE. ANY SUCH OPINION SHALL BE DEEMED
   21  PART OF THE RECORD UPON WHICH THE LIQUOR BOARD MAKES  ITS  DETERMINATION
   22  TO GRANT OR DENY SUCH LICENSE.
   23    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   24  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00375-01-1