Bill Text: NY S06982 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for issuance of annual permits authorizing on-premises consumption licensees to be open between 10:00 AM and noon on Sunday, and special permits to be open between 8:00 AM and noon on Sunday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-02 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06982 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06982-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6982
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 11, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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
          authorizing  the  sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consump-
          tion on Sunday mornings
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 106 of the alco-
     2  holic beverage control law, as amended by chapter  83  of  the  laws  of
     3  1995, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  Sunday, from four ante meridiem to twelve noon, except as author-
     5  ized pursuant to section ninety-nine-h of this  chapter  or  by  special
     6  permit.
     7    §  2.  The  alcoholic  beverage control law is amended by adding a new
     8  section 99-h to read as follows:
     9    § 99-h. Annual permit to remain open during certain hours of the morn-
    10  ing. 1.  Any person licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption
    11  on the premises pursuant  to  this  chapter  or  any  applicant  for  an
    12  original  license  to  sell  alcoholic  beverages for consumption on the
    13  premises pursuant to this chapter may apply to the liquor authority  for
    14  an  annual  permit  to  remain  open  on Sunday between the hours of ten
    15  o'clock a.m. and twelve noon. Any applicant for such  an  annual  permit
    16  shall  provide  notice  to the local municipality of such application as
    17  provided in section one hundred ten-b of this chapter.
    18    2. The annual fee for such annual permit shall be  two  hundred  fifty
    19  dollars  in  the  counties  of  New  York,  Kings, Bronx and Queens; one
    20  hundred fifty dollars in the county of Richmond and in cities  having  a
    21  population  of more than one hundred thousand and less than one million;
    22  one hundred dollars in cities having a population  of  more  than  fifty
    23  thousand  and  less  than  one  hundred  thousand; and two hundred fifty
    24  dollars elsewhere.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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