Bill Text: NY S04627 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the liquor authority from revoking, suspending, or canceling a retail licensee's license without a hearing when the holder of the license was issued a summons for a violation that is unrelated to the sale or consumption of alcohol on premises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04627 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04627-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4627

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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
          prohibiting the liquor authority from revoking, suspending, or cancel-
          ing certain liquor licenses without a hearing

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 119  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a.  The  liquor  authority  shall not revoke, suspend, or cancel the
     4  license of a retail licensee for on-premises consumption that was issued
     5  a summons for a violation that is unrelated to the sale  or  consumption
     6  of alcohol on the premises of such licensee without providing the licen-
     7  see  a  hearing  or  other  opportunity  to be heard on why such license
     8  should not be revoked, suspended, or  canceled.  If  a  hearing  is  not
     9  provided to such licensee within thirty days of service of such summons,
    10  the  liquor  authority  shall  not  take  any  further action to revoke,
    11  suspend, or cancel such license until such summons has been  adjudicated
    12  in court.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
    14  summons issued on or after such date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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