Bill Text: NY S00540 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to purchasing wine or liquor by two or more licensed retailers.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00540 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00540-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          540
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
         ment Operations
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
         purchasing by two or more licensed retailers
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 101-b of  the  alcoholic  beverage
    2  control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    3    (E)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF PURCHASING ONLY, ANY TWO OR MORE RETAILERS
    4  LICENSED PURSUANT TO SECTION SIXTY-THREE OR SEVENTY-NINE OF THIS CHAPTER
    5  MAY JOIN IN AN AGREEMENT TO MAKE JOINT  PURCHASES  OF  LIQUOR  OR  WINE,
    6  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER, THAT ALL SUCH ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES PURCHASED PURSUANT
    7  TO ANY SUCH AGREEMENT SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO NONE OTHER THAN A LICENSEE
    8  WHO IS A PARTY TO SUCH AGREEMENT. THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, AS AUTHOR-
    9  IZED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION, SHALL BE VOID IF,  WITHIN  A  CITY  WITH  A
   10  POPULATION  OF  ONE  MILLION  OR  MORE, THE PREMISES OPERATING UNDER THE
   11  COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AUTHORIZED IN THIS SUBDIVISION ARE  LOCATED  MORE
   12  THAN  ONE  MILE FROM ONE ANOTHER. THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, AS AUTHOR-
   13  IZED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION, SHALL BE VOID IF, OUTSIDE OF A CITY WITH  A
   14  POPULATION  OF  ONE MILLION OR MORE, THE PREMISES OPERATING UNDER AGREE-
   15  MENTS AUTHORIZED IN THIS SUBDIVISION ARE LOCATED MORE THAN  FIFTY  MILES
   16  FROM  ONE  ANOTHER.  THE  AUTHORITY  MAY PROMULGATE SUCH RULES AND REGU-
   17  LATIONS AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVI-
   18  SION.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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