Bill Text: NY A00326 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to permitting licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to sell additional related items including gift baskets, glassware, accessories, novelty clothing, liquor candy, gift bags and books.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to economic development [A00326 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00326-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           326
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. STIRPE, M. G. MILLER, DenDEKKER, CROUCH -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          permitting  licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consump-
          tion off the premises to sell additional related items
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  63 of the alcoholic beverage
     2  control law, as amended by chapter 297 of the laws of 2016,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    4.  No licensee under this section shall be engaged in any other busi-
     5  ness on the licensed premises. The sale of lottery  tickets,  when  duly
     6  authorized and lawfully conducted, the sale of corkscrews or the sale of
     7  ice  or  the  sale  of  publications, including prerecorded video and/or
     8  audio cassette tapes, designed to help educate consumers in their  know-
     9  ledge  and appreciation of wine and wine products, as defined in section
    10  three of this chapter,  or  the  sale  of  non-carbonated,  non-flavored
    11  mineral waters, spring waters and drinking waters or the sale of glasses
    12  designed  for the consumption of wine, racks designed for the storage of
    13  wine, and devices designed to minimize  oxidation  in  bottles  of  wine
    14  which  have  been  uncorked,  [or  the sale of gift bags, gift boxes, or
    15  wrapping, for alcoholic beverages purchased at  the  licensed  premises]
    16  additional items related to the sale of liquor, including but not limit-
    17  ed  to  novelty  clothing,  liquor and wine accessories, glassware, pre-
    18  packaged gift baskets containing liquor or wine with accessories, liquor
    19  candy, gift bags and books, shall not  constitute  engaging  in  another
    20  business within the meaning of this subdivision.
    21    §  2.  Subdivision  4  of section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control
    22  law, as amended by chapter 603 of the laws of 1992, is amended  to  read
    23  as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    4.  No licensee under this section shall be engaged in any other busi-
     2  ness on the licensed premises. The sale of lottery  tickets,  when  duly
     3  authorized and lawfully conducted, the sale of corkscrews or the sale of
     4  ice  or  the  sale  of  publications, including prerecorded video and/or
     5  audio  cassette tapes, designed to help educate consumers in their know-
     6  ledge and appreciation of wine and wine products, as defined in  section
     7  three  of  this  chapter,  or  the  sale of non-carbonated, non-flavored
     8  mineral waters, spring waters and drinking waters or the sale of glasses
     9  designed for the consumption of wine, racks designed for the storage  of
    10  wine,  and  devices  designed  to  minimize oxidation in bottles of wine
    11  which have been uncorked,  additional  items  related  to  the  sale  of
    12  liquor,  including  but not limited to novelty clothing, liquor and wine
    13  accessories, glassware, pre-packaged gift baskets containing  liquor  or
    14  wine  with  accessories,  liquor  candy,  gift bags and books, shall not
    15  constitute engaging in another  business  within  the  meaning  of  this
    16  subdivision.
    17    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
    18  the amendments to subdivision 4 of section 63 of the alcoholic  beverage
    19  control  law  made  by  section  one of this act shall be subject to the
    20  expiration and reversion of such subdivision pursuant to chapter 297  of
    21  the  laws  of  2016,  as  amended, when upon such date the provisions of
    22  section two of this act shall take effect.