Bill Text: NY S07910 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the definition of a catering establishment and removes the requirement that such establishment be for not less than fifty persons at any one function, occasion or event.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-02 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07910 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07910-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7910 IN SENATE March 2, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- 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 the definition of a catering establishment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7-a of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage 2 control law, as added by chapter 682 of the laws of 1935, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 7-a. "Catering establishment" means and includes any premises owned or 5 operated by any person, firm, association, partnership or corporation 6 who or which regularly and in a bona fide manner furnishes for hire 7 therein one or more ballrooms, reception rooms, dining rooms, banquet 8 halls, dancing halls or similar places of assemblage for a particular 9 function, occasion or event and/or who or which furnishes provisions and 10 service for consumption or use at such function, occasion or event. Such 11 premises must have suitable and adequate facilities and accommodations 12 to provide food and service [for not less than fifty persons at any one13function, occasion or event] and shall in no event be deemed to include 14 any taxi dance hall or any other premises at which public dances are 15 regularly scheduled to be held daily, weekly or monthly and to which the 16 general public is invited. 17 § 2. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of 18 any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect 19 the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or of 20 any other application of any provision of this act, which can be given 21 effect without that provision or application; and to that end, the 22 provisions and applications of this act are severable. 23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14217-01-9