Bill Text: NY A10030 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at stadiums, arenas or places of entertainment having a permanent seating capacity in excess of eighteen thousand persons, at eleven a.m. on Sunday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-20 - amended on third reading 10030b [A10030 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10030-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10030
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 2, 2012
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Economic Development
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
         authorizing  the  retail sale of alcoholic beverages at certain stadi-
         ums, arenas or places of entertainment at eleven a.m. on Sunday
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 106 of the alcoholic beverage
    2  control law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    5. No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, offered  for  sale  or  given
    5  away  upon  any  premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail
    6  for on-premises consumption, during the following hours:
    7    (a) Sunday, from four ante meridiem to twelve noon.
    8    (b) On any other day between four ante meridiem and eight  ante  meri-
    9  diem.
   10    Unless  otherwise  approved  by  the authority pursuant to subdivision
   11  eleven of section seventeen of this chapter, where  any  rule  has  been
   12  adopted  in  a county on or before April first, nineteen hundred ninety-
   13  five, further restricting the hours of  sale  for  alcoholic  beverages,
   14  such restricted hours shall be the hours, during which the sale of alco-
   15  holic  beverages  at  retail  for  on-premises  consumption shall not be
   16  permitted within such county.
   17    Nor shall any person be permitted to consume any  alcoholic  beverages
   18  upon  any  such premises later than one-half hour after the start of the
   19  prohibited hours of sale provided for in this section.
   20    NOTWITHSTANDING PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, NO ALCOHOLIC BEVER-
   21  AGES SHALL BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE OR GIVEN AWAY AT ANY STADIUM, ARENA
   22  OR PLACE OF ENTERTAINMENT HAVING A PERMANENT SEATING CAPACITY IN  EXCESS
   23  OF FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS, LICENSED TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT RETAIL
   24  FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION ON SUNDAY, FROM FOUR ANTE MERIDIEM TO ELEVEN
   25  ANTE MERIDIEM.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15470-01-2
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