Senate Bill S7910

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of a catering establishment

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S7910 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8844
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, ABC L

2019-S7910 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the definition of a catering establishment and removes the requirement that such establishment be for not less than fifty persons at any one function, occasion or event.

2019-S7910 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7910 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7910
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 2, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation  to  the
   definition of a catering establishment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 7-a of section  3  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
 control  law, as added by chapter 682 of the laws of 1935, is amended to
 read as follows:
   7-a. "Catering establishment" means and includes any premises owned or
 operated by any person, firm, association,  partnership  or  corporation
 who  or  which  regularly  and  in a bona fide manner furnishes for hire
 therein one or more ballrooms, reception rooms,  dining  rooms,  banquet
 halls,  dancing  halls  or similar places of assemblage for a particular
 function, occasion or event and/or who or which furnishes provisions and
 service for consumption or use at such function, occasion or event. Such
 premises must have suitable and adequate facilities  and  accommodations
 to  provide food and service [for not less than fifty persons at any one
 function, occasion or event] and shall in no event be deemed to  include
 any  taxi  dance  hall  or any other premises at which public dances are
 regularly scheduled to be held daily, weekly or monthly and to which the
 general public is invited.
   § 2. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of
 any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not  affect
 the  validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or of
 any other application of any provision of this act, which can  be  given
 effect  without  that  provision  or  application;  and to that end, the
 provisions and applications of this act are severable.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14217-01-9

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