S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 13, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
prohibiting the sale of any powdered or crystalline alcohol product
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage
control law, as amended by chapter 42 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
read as follows:
1. "Alcoholic beverage" or "beverage" mean and include alcohol, spir-
its, liquor, wine, beer, cider and every liquid [or], solid, POWDER OR
CRYSTAL, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits, wine or beer and
capable of being consumed by a human being, and any warehouse receipt,
certificate, contract or other document pertaining thereto; except that
confectionery containing alcohol as provided by subdivision twelve of
section two hundred of the agriculture and markets law and ice cream and
other frozen desserts made with wine as provided in subdivision fifteen
of section two hundred of the agriculture and markets law shall not be
regulated as an "alcoholic beverage" or "beverage" within the meaning of
this section where the sale, delivery or giving away is to a person aged
twenty-one years or older. The sale, delivery or giving away of ice
cream made with wine to a person under the age of twenty-one years may
be prosecuted administratively and/or criminally in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter.
S 2. Section 100 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
1-A. NO PERSON SHALL SELL, OFFER FOR SALE, OR OTHERWISE PROVIDE FOR
OFF-PREMISES CONSUMPTION, ANY POWDERED OR CRYSTALLINE ALCOHOLIC PRODUCT.
S 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14942-03-4