Bill Text: NY S07045 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at stadiums, arenas or places of entertainment having a permanent seating capacity in excess of eighteen thousand persons, at eleven a.m. on Sunday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-18 - PRINT NUMBER 7045B [S07045 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7045
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 25, 2012
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       Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- 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  retail sale of alcoholic beverages at certain stadi-
         ums, arenas or places of entertainment at eleven a.m. on Sunday
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 106 of the alcoholic beverage
    2  control law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    5. No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, offered  for  sale  or  given
    5  away  upon  any  premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail
    6  for on-premises consumption, during the following hours:
    7    (a) Sunday, from four ante meridiem to twelve noon.
    8    (b) On any other day between four ante meridiem and eight  ante  meri-
    9  diem.
   10    Unless  otherwise  approved  by  the authority pursuant to subdivision
   11  eleven of section seventeen of this chapter, where  any  rule  has  been
   12  adopted  in  a county on or before April first, nineteen hundred ninety-
   13  five, further restricting the hours of  sale  for  alcoholic  beverages,
   14  such restricted hours shall be the hours, during which the sale of alco-
   15  holic  beverages  at  retail  for  on-premises  consumption shall not be
   16  permitted within such county.
   17    Nor shall any person be permitted to consume any  alcoholic  beverages
   18  upon  any  such premises later than one-half hour after the start of the
   19  prohibited hours of sale provided for in this section.
   20    NOTWITHSTANDING PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, NO ALCOHOLIC BEVER-
   21  AGES SHALL BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE OR GIVEN AWAY AT ANY STADIUM, ARENA
   22  OR PLACE OF ENTERTAINMENT HAVING A PERMANENT SEATING CAPACITY IN  EXCESS
   23  OF FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS, LICENSED TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT RETAIL
   24  FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION ON SUNDAY, FROM FOUR ANTE MERIDIEM TO ELEVEN
   25  ANTE MERIDIEM.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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