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Assembly Bill A4972

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Permits licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to sell cigars

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2009-A4972 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง63, ABC L

2009-A4972 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to sell to persons over the age of twenty-one years, cigars which have been prepackaged by the manufacturer in boxes of ten or more and publications designed to educate consumers of cigar products.

2009-A4972 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4972

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRODSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry

AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
  permitting  licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consump-
  tion off the premises to sell cigars

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  63 of the alcoholic beverage
control law, as amended by chapter 603 of the laws of 1992,  is  amended
to read as follows:
   4. No licensee under this section shall be engaged in any other busi-
ness  on  the  licensed premises. The sale of lottery tickets, when duly
authorized and lawfully conducted, the sale of corkscrews or the sale of
ice or the sale of  publications,  including  prerecorded  video  and/or
audio  cassette tapes, designed to help educate consumers in their know-
ledge and appreciation of wine and wine products, as defined in  section
three  of  this  chapter,  or  the  sale of non-carbonated, non-flavored
mineral waters, spring waters and drinking waters or the sale of glasses
designed for the consumption of wine, racks designed for the storage  of
wine,  and  devices  designed  to  minimize oxidation in bottles of wine
which have been uncorked, THE SALE AT RETAIL OF CIGARS WHICH  HAVE  BEEN
PREPACKAGED  BY THE MANUFACTURER IN BOXES OF TEN OR MORE, OR THE SALE OF
PUBLICATIONS DESIGNED TO HELP EDUCATE CONSUMERS IN THEIR  KNOWLEDGE  AND
APPRECIATION  OF CIGAR PRODUCTS shall not constitute engaging in another
business within the meaning of this subdivision.    NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY
OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, NO LICENSEE UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL SELL CIGARS
TO ANY PERSON LESS THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08662-01-9

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