Bill Text: NY A00653 | 2019-2020 | 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) 2020-01-08 - referred to economic development [A00653 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00653-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           653
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. STIRPE, CROUCH, DenDEKKER, M. G. MILLER, SANTA-
          BARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic  Devel-
          opment
        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 360 of the laws of 2017, 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, or educational seminars, designed to help educate
     9  consumers in their knowledge and appreciation of alcoholic beverages, as
    10  defined in section three of this chapter and allowed pursuant  to  their
    11  license,  or  the  sale  of non-carbonated, non-flavored mineral waters,
    12  spring waters and drinking waters or the sale of  glasses  designed  for
    13  the  consumption  of  wine,  racks designed for the storage of wine, and
    14  devices designed to minimize oxidation in bottles  of  wine  which  have
    15  been  uncorked,  [or the sale of gift bags, gift boxes, or wrapping, for
    16  alcoholic beverages purchased at the licensed premises] additional items
    17  related to the sale of liquor, including  but  not  limited  to  novelty
    18  clothing,  liquor  and  wine  accessories,  glassware, pre-packaged gift
    19  baskets containing liquor or wine with accessories, liquor  candy,  gift
    20  bags and books, shall not constitute engaging in another business within
    21  the  meaning  of  this subdivision. Any fee obtained from the sale of an
    22  educational seminar shall not be considered as a  fee  for  any  tasting
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 653                              2
     1  that  may  be  offered during an educational seminar, provided that such
     2  tastings are available to persons who have not paid to attend the  semi-
     3  nar  and  all  tastings  are conducted in accordance with section sixty-
     4  three-a of this article.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.