Bill Text: NY S03657 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the state liquor authority to issue multiple event permits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-19 - referred to economic development [S03657 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03657-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3657
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 8, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- 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
         providing a multiple event caterer's permit
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  98  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
    2  control  law,  as  amended  by section 21 of part Z of chapter 85 of the
    3  laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
    4    1. The liquor authority is hereby authorized to issue to [caterers and
    5  other] persons HOLDING A LICENSE TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES  AT  RETAIL
    6  FOR  CONSUMPTION  ON  THE PREMISES furnishing provisions and service for
    7  use at a particular function[, occasion or event] in  a  hotel,  restau-
    8  rant,  club, ballroom or other premises a temporary indoor permit effec-
    9  tive for a period not to exceed  twenty-four  consecutive  hours,  which
   10  shall  authorize  the  service  of alcoholic beverages at such function,
   11  occasion or event within the hours, fixed by or pursuant to  subdivision
   12  five  of section one hundred six of this chapter, during which alcoholic
   13  beverages may lawfully be sold or served upon premises licensed to  sell
   14  alcoholic  beverages at retail for on-premises consumption in the commu-
   15  nity in which is located the premises in which such  function,  occasion
   16  or event is held.
   17    (A) The fee therefor shall be thirty-eight dollars.
   18    (B)  Such  a  permit and the exercise of the privilege granted thereby
   19  may be [subjected] SUBJECT to such rules by the liquor authority  as  it
   20  deems  necessary and such rules as are in conformity with the provisions
   21  of subdivision two of this section.
   22    (C) Such a permit may also  be  issued  for  functions,  occasions  or
   23  events at premises for which a summer license has been previously issued
   24  pursuant to this chapter.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S  2.  Section  98 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    3    1-A. IN LIEU OF A PERMIT ISSUED UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,
    4  THE  LIQUOR  AUTHORITY IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE TO SUCH LICENSEES A
    5  PERMIT EFFECTIVE FOR A ONE YEAR PERIOD WHICH SHALL AUTHORIZE THE SERVICE
    6  OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS.
    7    (A) THE FEE THEREFOR SHALL BE TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.
    8    (B) SUCH A PERMIT AND THE EXERCISE OF THE  PRIVILEGE  GRANTED  THEREBY
    9  MAY  BE SUBJECT TO SUCH RULES BY THE LIQUOR AUTHORITY AS IT DEEMS NECES-
   10  SARY.
   11    (C) A PERMIT ISSUED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT BE  USED  AT  ANY
   12  PREMISES  LOCATED  IN A MUNICIPALITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR
   13  MORE.
   14    S 3. Section 98 of the alcoholic beverage control law  is  amended  by
   15  adding two new subdivisions 6 and 7 to read as follows:
   16    6.  FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, THE LIQUOR AUTHORITY MAY DENY A PERMIT FOR A
   17  PARTICULAR LICENSEE OR FOR A PARTICULAR FUNCTION.
   18    (A) AN APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE, TWO,  THREE  OR
   19  FIVE  OF  THIS SECTION SHALL BE FILED WITH THE LIQUOR AUTHORITY AT LEAST
   20  FIFTEEN DAYS BEFORE THE FUNCTION.
   21    (B) THE HOLDER OF AN ANNUAL PERMIT ISSUED UNDER SUBDIVISION  ONE-A  OF
   22  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  PROVIDE  THE  LIQUOR AUTHORITY IN WRITING WITH THE
   23  LOCATION OF THE EVENT AND SUCH OTHER INFORMATION AS MAY BE  REQUIRED  AT
   24  LEAST  FIFTEEN  DAYS  BEFORE  THE FUNCTION. THE LOCATION SHALL BE DEEMED
   25  APPROVED WITHIN SEVEN DAYS UNLESS  THE  LIQUOR  AUTHORITY  NOTIFIES  THE
   26  PERMIT HOLDER OF ITS OBJECTION.
   27    7.  A  PERMIT  ISSUED  UNDER THIS SECTION, OR IN THE CASE OF AN ANNUAL
   28  PERMIT A COPY OF SUCH PERMIT, SHALL BE POSTED AND DISPLAYED AT ALL TIMES
   29  IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE AT THE EVENT LOCATION DURING SUCH TIMES AS  ALCO-
   30  HOLIC BEVERAGES ARE BEING SOLD OR SERVED.
   31    S  4.    This  act  shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day
   32  after it shall have become a law.