S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6248
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 7, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel-
opment and Small Business
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] THEIR
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 chap-
ter or any other law. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit or
restrict the leasing or use of such place of assemblage as defined here-
in 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.
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