Bill Text: NY S05901 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows a municipality or community board to express an opinion before a license is granted to a person to sell liquor at retail for off-premises consumption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-04 - PRINT NUMBER 5901A [S05901 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05901-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5901--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    October 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO,  OPPENHEIMER  --  read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
         recommitted to the Committee on  Commerce,  Economic  Development  and
         Small  Business  in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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
         licenses  to  sell  liquor  at retail for consumption off the premises
         issued in the city of New York
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
    2  by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER, IN THE CITY
    4  OF NEW YORK, UPON RECEIPT OF AN APPLICATION FOR  A  LICENSE  UNDER  THIS
    5  SECTION  OR AN APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL UNDER SECTION ONE HUNDRED NINE OF
    6  THIS CHAPTER, THE APPLICANT SHALL NOTIFY THE COMMUNITY BOARD ESTABLISHED
    7  PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED OF THE NEW  YORK  CITY  CHARTER
    8  WITH JURISDICTION OVER THE AREA IN WHICH SUCH LICENSED PREMISES IS TO BE
    9  LOCATED,  BY  CERTIFIED  MAIL,  RETURN  RECEIPT  REQUESTED,  WHEREIN THE
   10  PROSPECTIVE LICENSED PREMISES IS TO BE LOCATED OR, IN  THE  CASE  OF  AN
   11  APPLICATION  FOR  RENEWAL,  WHERE IT IS PRESENTLY LOCATED, NOT LESS THAN
   12  THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE SUBMISSION OF ITS  APPLICATION  FOR  A  LICENSE
   13  UNDER  THIS  SECTION  OR  FOR  A RENEWAL THEREOF PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE
   14  HUNDRED NINE OF THIS CHAPTER.  SUCH COMMUNITY BOARD MAY EXPRESS AN OPIN-
   15  ION FOR OR AGAINST THE GRANTING OF SUCH LICENSE. ANY SUCH OPINION  SHALL
   16  BE  DEEMED  PART  OF  THE  RECORD  UPON WHICH THE LIQUOR BOARD MAKES ITS
   17  DETERMINATION TO GRANT OR DENY SUCH LICENSE.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   19  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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