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Assembly Bill A653

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to permitting licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to sell additional related items

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2019-A653 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §63, ABC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A6722
2015-2016: A3657
2017-2018: A326
2021-2022: A6325

2019-A653 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to permitting licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to sell additional related items including gift baskets, glassware, accessories, novelty clothing, liquor candy, gift bags and books.

2019-A653 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    653
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. STIRPE, CROUCH, DenDEKKER, M. G. MILLER, SANTA-
   BARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic  Devel-
   opment
 
 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 additional related items
 
   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 360 of the laws of 2017, 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, or educational seminars, designed to help educate
 consumers in their knowledge and appreciation of alcoholic beverages, as
 defined in section three of this chapter and allowed pursuant  to  their
 license,  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,  [or the sale of gift bags, gift boxes, or wrapping, for
 alcoholic beverages purchased at the licensed premises] ADDITIONAL ITEMS
 RELATED TO THE SALE OF LIQUOR, INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO  NOVELTY
 CLOTHING,  LIQUOR  AND  WINE  ACCESSORIES,  GLASSWARE, PRE-PACKAGED GIFT
 BASKETS CONTAINING LIQUOR OR WINE WITH ACCESSORIES, LIQUOR  CANDY,  GIFT
 BAGS AND BOOKS, shall not constitute engaging in another business within
 the  meaning  of  this subdivision. Any fee obtained from the sale of an
 educational seminar shall not be considered as a  fee  for  any  tasting
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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