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Assembly Bill A11121A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits certain members of the state liquor authority or officers, deputies, assistants, inspectors or employees thereof to be a member of a community board of education

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2025-A11121 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10495
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16, ABC L

2025-A11121 - Summary

Permits certain members of the state liquor authority or officers, deputies, assistants, inspectors or employees thereof to be a member of a board of education.

2025-A11121 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11121
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   permitting  certain members of the state liquor authority or officers,
   deputies, assistants, inspectors or employees thereof to be  a  member
   of a community board of education

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 16  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  731  of  the  laws  of 1971, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 16. Disqualification of members and  employees  of  authority.    No
 member  of the authority or any officer, deputy, assistant, inspector or
 employee thereof shall have any interest,  direct  or  indirect,  either
 proprietary  or  by means of any loan, mortgage or lien, or in any other
 manner, in or on any premises where alcoholic beverages are manufactured
 or sold; nor shall [he] THEY have any interest, direct or  indirect,  in
 any  business  wholly  or  partially  devoted  to the manufacture, sale,
 transportation or storage of alcoholic beverages, or own  any  stock  in
 any corporation which has any interest, proprietary or otherwise, direct
 or  indirect, in any premises where alcoholic beverages are manufactured
 or sold, or in any business wholly or partially devoted to the  manufac-
 ture, sale, transportation or storage of alcoholic beverages, or receive
 any commission or profit whatsoever, direct or indirect, from any person
 applying  for  or  receiving  any license or permit provided for in this
 chapter, or hold any other public office in the state or  in  any  poli-
 tical  subdivision  except  upon  the  written  permission of the liquor
 authority, such member of the authority or officer,  deputy,  assistant,
 inspector  or  employee  thereof  may  hold  the public office of notary
 public or member of a community board of education [in the  city  school
 district of the city of New York].  [Any one] ANYONE who violates any of
 the provisions of this section shall be removed.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15621-01-6

2025-A11121A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10495
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16, ABC L

2025-A11121A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits certain members of the state liquor authority or officers, deputies, assistants, inspectors or employees thereof to be a member of a board of education.

2025-A11121A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 11121--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   permitting  certain members of the state liquor authority or officers,
   deputies, assistants, inspectors or employees thereof to be  a  member
   of a board of education
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 16  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  731  of  the  laws  of 1971, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 16. Disqualification of members and  employees  of  authority.    No
 member  of the authority or any officer, deputy, assistant, inspector or
 employee thereof shall have any interest,  direct  or  indirect,  either
 proprietary  or  by means of any loan, mortgage or lien, or in any other
 manner, in or on any premises where alcoholic beverages are manufactured
 or sold; nor shall [he] THEY have any interest, direct or  indirect,  in
 any  business  wholly  or  partially  devoted  to the manufacture, sale,
 transportation or storage of alcoholic beverages, or own  any  stock  in
 any corporation which has any interest, proprietary or otherwise, direct
 or  indirect, in any premises where alcoholic beverages are manufactured
 or sold, or in any business wholly or partially devoted to the  manufac-
 ture, sale, transportation or storage of alcoholic beverages, or receive
 any commission or profit whatsoever, direct or indirect, from any person
 applying  for  or  receiving  any license or permit provided for in this
 chapter, or hold any other public office in the state or  in  any  poli-
 tical  subdivision  except  upon  the  written  permission of the liquor
 authority, such member of the authority or officer,  deputy,  assistant,
 inspector  or  employee  thereof  may  hold  the public office of notary
 public or member of a [community] board of education [in the city school
 district of the city of New York].  [Any one] ANYONE who violates any of
 the provisions of this section shall be removed.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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