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                                   1575
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   enacting  the  "New  York  beverage  modernization act"; and to repeal
   certain provisions of such law relating thereto

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York
 beverage modernization act".
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 14 of section 105 of  the  alcoholic
 beverage control law, as amended by section 1 of part U of chapter 63 of
 the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  No  premises licensed to sell liquor and/or wine for off-premises
 consumption shall be permitted to remain open[:
   (i) On Sunday before twelve  o'clock  post  meridian  and  after  nine
 o'clock post meridian.
   (ii) On] ON any day between midnight and eight o'clock antemeridian.
   [(iii) On the twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day.]
   In  any  community  where daylight saving time is in effect, such time
 shall be deemed the standard time for the purpose of this subdivision.
   § 3. Section 105-a of the alcoholic beverage control law is REPEALED.
   § 4. Subdivision 5 of section 106 of the  alcoholic  beverage  control
 law,  as  amended  by  chapter  83 of the laws of 1995, paragraph (a) as
 amended by chapter 297 of the laws  of  2016,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  No  alcoholic  beverages  shall be sold, offered for sale or given
 away upon any premises licensed to sell alcoholic  beverages  at  retail
 for on-premises consumption[, during the following hours:
   (a)  Sunday,  from  four  ante  meridiem  to ten 'o clock a.m., except
 pursuant to a permit issued under section ninety-nine-h of this chapter.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (b) On] ON any [other] day between four ante meridiem and  eight  ante
 meridiem.
   Unless  otherwise  approved  by  the authority pursuant to subdivision
 [eleven] NINE of section seventeen of this chapter, where any  rule  has
 been  adopted  in  a  county  on or before April first, nineteen hundred
 ninety-five, further restricting the hours of sale for alcoholic  bever-
 ages, such restricted hours shall be the hours, during which the sale of
 alcoholic  beverages  at retail for on-premises consumption shall not be
 permitted within such county.
   Nor shall any person be permitted to consume any  alcoholic  beverages
 upon  any  such premises later than one-half hour after the start of the
 prohibited hours of sale provided for in this section.
   § 5. Subdivision 6 of section 117-a of the alcoholic beverage  control
 law is REPEALED.
   §  6.  Subdivision  4 of section 130 of the alcoholic beverage control
 law, as amended by chapter 186 of the laws of 1949, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   4.  In the city of New York, a summons shall be issued for a violation
 of the provisions of subdivision fourteen of section one  hundred  [and]
 five[,  section  one hundred and five-a] and subdivision five of section
 one hundred [and] six of this chapter in the same manner as provided  by
 subdivision  h of section one hundred [and] sixteen of the New York city
 criminal courts act.
   § 7. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.