Bill Text: NY A10667 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to where beer may be sold relating to brewpubs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-21 - substituted by s7216 [A10667 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10667-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10667
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 13, 2012
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       Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Schimminger)
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
       AN  ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to beer
         and brewpubs
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivisions 5, 8 and 10 of section 64-c of the alcoholic
    2  beverage control law, as added by chapter 538 of the laws of  1997,  are
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    5.  Such restaurant-brewer license shall in form and in substance be a
    5  license to the person specifically licensed to operate a restaurant  and
    6  sell  liquor  at  retail  to  be  consumed  on the premises specifically
    7  licensed. Such license shall also be deemed to include a license to:
    8    (A) sell wine and beer at retail to be consumed under the  same  terms
    9  and conditions, without the payment of any additional fee; AND
   10    (B)  SELL BEER BREWED ON THE PREMISES TO OTHER RETAIL LICENSEES, WHERE
   11  SUCH LICENSE IS HELD BY THE SAME PERSON  HOLDING  THE  RESTAURANT-BREWER
   12  LICENSE,  OR  TO  COMMONLY  OWNED AFFILIATE LICENSES, PROVIDED THAT SUCH
   13  BEER IS SOLD THROUGH A NEW YORK STATE LICENSED BEER WHOLESALER.
   14    8. [Not more than five thousand barrels of beer per year may be brewed
   15  on any premises licensed under this section nor may any person who holds
   16  multiple licenses] A PERSON HOLDING ONE  OR  MORE  LICENSES  under  this
   17  section MAY brew, in the aggregate, NO more than twenty thousand barrels
   18  of beer per year.
   19    10.  [Except  as  provided in subdivisions seven, eight, nine, twelve,
   20  thirteen, fourteen and sixteen of this section, no person licensed under
   21  this section may be interested directly or indirectly in any other prem-
   22  ises in this state where alcoholic beverages are manufactured  or  sold.
   23  Any person who has an interest in premises eligible for conversion under
   24  subdivision  nine  of this section shall not be issued any license under
   25  this section unless and until a conversion application  has  been  filed
   26  with  and  approved  by the authority.] (A) FOR PURPOSES OF SECTIONS ONE
   27  HUNDRED ONE AND ONE HUNDRED SIX OF THIS CHAPTER, A PERSON LICENSED UNDER
   28  THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED A "RETAILER" AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED WITHIN
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15528-01-2
       A. 10667                            2
    1  SECTION THREE OF THIS CHAPTER.   NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION  OF  THIS
    2  CHAPTER  TO  THE CONTRARY, A PERSON LICENSED UNDER THIS SECTION MAY ALSO
    3  BE LICENSED (OR INTERESTED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN A LICENSE) TO  SELL
    4  LIQUOR  AT  RETAIL  TO  BE CONSUMED ON OR OFF THE PREMISES UNDER SECTION
    5  FIFTY-FOUR,  FIFTY-FOUR-A,  FIFTY-FIVE,  FIFTY-FIVE-A,  SEVENTY-NINE  OR
    6  EIGHTY-ONE  OF THIS CHAPTER OR SECTIONS SIXTY-FOUR, SIXTY-FOUR-A, SIXTY-
    7  FOUR-B AND SIXTY-FOUR-D OF THIS ARTICLE.
    8    (B) NO MANUFACTURER OR WHOLESALER OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES MAY BE GRANT-
    9  ED A LICENSE TO OPERATE A RESTAURANT-BREWER PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION.
   10  ANY PERSON WHO HAS AN INTEREST IN PREMISES ELIGIBLE FOR CONVERSION UNDER
   11  SUBDIVISION  NINE  OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE ISSUED ANY LICENSE UNDER
   12  THIS SECTION UNLESS AND UNTIL A CONVERSION APPLICATION  HAS  BEEN  FILED
   13  WITH AND APPROVED BY THE AUTHORITY.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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