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                                   6769
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
   increasing the capacity needed to be considered a bottle club
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 64-b of the alcoholic beverage
 control law, as amended by chapter 1043 of the laws of 1971, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   1.  It  shall  be  unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation
 operating a place for profit or pecuniary gain, with a capacity for  the
 assemblage of [twenty] ONE HUNDRED or more persons to permit a person or
 persons  to  come  to the place of assembly for the purpose of consuming
 alcoholic beverages on said  premises,  which  alcoholic  beverages  are
 either  provided  by  the operator of the place of assembly, his agents,
 servants or employees, or are brought onto said premises by  the  person
 or  persons  assembling at such place, unless an appropriate license has
 first been obtained from the state liquor authority by the  operator  of
 said  place  of  assembly. Nothing in this section shall be construed as
 affecting the definition of place of assembly in  this  chapter  or  any
 other  law.    Nothing  contained  herein shall prohibit or restrict the
 leasing or use of such place of assemblage  as  defined  herein  by  any
 organization or club enumerated in subdivision seven hereof.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07036-01-3