Bill Text: NY S06982 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6982 IN SENATE March 11, 2016 ___________ 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. LBD14619-01-6