Bill Text: NY S06324 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing the state liquor authority to impose a one year moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to sell liquor on premises in certain instances in cities having a population of one million or more; authorizes the state liquor authority to establish a one year moratorium within a neighborhood in a city having a population of one million or more on the issuance of new liquor licenses for on premises consumption upon receipt of a request from both state legislative representatives, or NYC council members and a resolution of a local body or bodies requesting a moratorium and a finding that the number of liquor licenses issued in such neighborhood has doubled over a three year period.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-22 - PRINT NUMBER 6324A [S06324 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06324-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6324--A
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 6, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment   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
          authorizing the state liquor authority to impose a one year moratorium
          on  the issuance of new licenses to sell liquor on premises in certain
          instances
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  17 of the alcoholic beverage
     2  control law, as amended by chapter 118 of the laws of 2012,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    2.  To limit in its discretion the number of licenses of each class to
     5  be issued within the state or any political subdivision thereof, and  in
     6  connection therewith to prohibit the acceptance of applications for such
     7  class  or  classes  of  licenses  which have been so limited.  Provided,
     8  however, in cities having a population of one million or more, (a)  upon
     9  receipt  of  (i)  a request from the state senator or state senators and
    10  assembly member or assembly members and New York City council member  or
    11  New  York City council members representing the residents of a neighbor-
    12  hood within a city having a population of one million or more and (ii) a
    13  resolution adopted by a community board or boards or other local body or
    14  bodies whose jurisdiction covers such neighborhood requesting a  morato-
    15  rium  within  such  neighborhood on the issuance of new licenses to sell
    16  liquor at retail for consumption on  the  premises  issued  pursuant  to
    17  sections   sixty-four,   sixty-four-a,  sixty-four-b,  sixty-four-c  and
    18  sixty-four-d of this chapter and (b) a finding by the authority that the
    19  number of such licenses issued  within  such  neighborhood  pursuant  to
    20  sections   sixty-four,   sixty-four-a,  sixty-four-b,  sixty-four-c  and
    21  sixty-four-d of this chapter has doubled over a three year  period,  the
    22  authority shall establish a one year moratorium within such neighborhood
    23  on the issuance of new licenses to sell liquor at retail for consumption
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13108-06-6