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Assembly Bill A8647

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the placement of liquor and/or wine within five feet of nonalcoholic beverages

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2025-A8647 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8112
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §105, ABC L

2025-A8647 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the placement of liquor and/or wine for sale within five feet of nonalcoholic beverages for retail licensees who sell such liquor and/or wine for consumption off premises.

2025-A8647 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8647
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   requiring  five  feet  of  distance between alcoholic and nonalcoholic
   beverages
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  105  of  the  alcoholic  beverage control law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 23-a to read as follows:
   23-A. EACH RETAIL LICENSEE OF LIQUOR AND/OR WINE FOR  CONSUMPTION  OFF
 THE  PREMISES  SHALL  BE PROHIBITED FROM PLACING SUCH LIQUOR AND/OR WINE
 FOR SALE WITHIN FIVE FEET OF NONALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13053-01-5

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