Bill Text: NY S00351 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays and Christmas day; makes related changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00351-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        351--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  GALLIVAN, BALL -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
         and  Government  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation  to  the
         selling  of  alcoholic  beverages; and to repeal certain provisions of
         such law relating thereto
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 14 of section 105 of the alco-
    2  holic beverage control law, as amended by section 1 of part U of chapter
    3  63 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  No  premises licensed to sell liquor and/or wine for off-premises
    5  consumption shall be permitted to remain open[:
    6    (i) On Sunday before twelve  o'clock  post  meridian  and  after  nine
    7  o'clock post meridian.
    8    (ii) On] ON any day between midnight and eight o'clock antemeridian.
    9    [(iii) On the twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day.]
   10    In  any  community  where daylight saving time is in effect, such time
   11  shall be deemed the standard time for the purpose of this subdivision.
   12    S 2. Section 105-a of the alcoholic beverage control law is REPEALED.
   13    S 3. Subdivision 5 of section 106 of the  alcoholic  beverage  control
   14  law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
   15  follows:
   16    5.  No  alcoholic  beverages  shall be sold, offered for sale or given
   17  away upon any premises licensed to sell alcoholic  beverages  at  retail
   18  for on-premises consumption[, during the following hours:
   19    (a) Sunday, from four ante meridiem to twelve noon.
   20    (b)  On]  ON any [other] day between four ante meridiem and eight ante
   21  meridiem.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    Unless otherwise approved by the  authority  pursuant  to  subdivision
    2  [eleven]  NINE  of section seventeen of this chapter, where any rule has
    3  been adopted in a county on or  before  April  first,  nineteen  hundred
    4  ninety-five,  further restricting the hours of sale for alcoholic bever-
    5  ages, such restricted hours shall be the hours, during which the sale of
    6  alcoholic  beverages  at retail for on-premises consumption shall not be
    7  permitted within such county.
    8    Nor shall any person be permitted to consume any  alcoholic  beverages
    9  upon  any  such premises later than one-half hour after the start of the
   10  prohibited hours of sale provided for in this section.
   11    S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   12  have become a law.