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Assembly Bill A1960

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for local community board input in the liquor authority's decision to license establishments serving alcohol for on-premise consumption

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2009-A1960 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3124
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง64, ABC L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S121

2009-A1960 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for enhanced municipal or, in New York city, community board input in the liquor authority's decision to license establishments serving alcohol for on-premises consumption; provides for increased notice and more meaningful opportunity to be heard.

2009-A1960 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1960

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 14, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN, ALFANO, GREENE -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M.  of  A. BARRA, HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry

AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
  community board involvement in the licensing of establishments serving
  alcohol for on-premise consumption

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 64  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
control law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
read as follows:
  2-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, upon receipt
of  an  application for a license under this section, an application for
renewal under section one hundred nine of this chapter, or  an  applica-
tion  for  an  alteration  to a premises licensed for consumption on the
premises under section ninety-nine-d  of  this  chapter,  the  applicant
shall notify the clerk of the village, town or city, as the case may be,
by  certified  mail,  return  receipt requested, wherein the prospective
licensed premises is to be located or, in the case of an application for
renewal, or alteration where it  is  presently  located  not  less  than
[thirty]  SIXTY  days  prior  to the submission of its application for a
license under this section or for a renewal thereof pursuant to  section
one  hundred  nine  of  this  chapter. For the purposes of the preceding
sentence notification need only be given to the clerk of a village  when
such  premises  is  to  be located within the boundaries of the village.
SUCH MUNICIPALITY MAY EXPRESS AN OPINION FOR OR AGAINST THE GRANTING  OF
SUCH  LICENSE.  ANY SUCH OPINION SHALL BE DEEMED PART OF THE RECORD UPON
WHICH THE LIQUOR BOARD MAKES ITS DETERMINATION TO  GRANT  OR  DENY  SUCH
LICENSE.
  2-B. In the city of New York, the community board established pursuant
to section twenty-eight hundred of the New York city charter with juris-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04829-01-9

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