Bill Text: NY A01953 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Permits the sale of certain food items in liquor stores and repeals certain provisions relating to the ownership of more than one liquor license.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - held for consideration in economic development [A01953 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01953-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1953
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 18, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. CROUCH, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, MORINELLO, 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 the sale of certain food items in  liquor  stores;  and  to
          repeal  certain  provisions  of  such law relating to the ownership of
          more than one liquor license
          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
     7  of  ice  [or],  the  sale  of  publications, including prerecorded video
     8  and/or audio cassette tapes, or educational seminars, designed  to  help
     9  educate  consumers  in  their  knowledge  and  appreciation of alcoholic
    10  beverages, as defined in section  three  of  this  chapter  and  allowed
    11  pursuant to their license, [or] the sale of non-carbonated, non-flavored
    12  mineral  waters,  spring  waters  and  drinking waters [or], the sale of
    13  glasses designed for the consumption of wine,  racks  designed  for  the
    14  storage  of  wine, and devices designed to minimize oxidation in bottles
    15  of wine which have been uncorked, [or the sale of gift bags, gift boxes,
    16  or wrapping, for alcoholic beverages purchased at the licensed premises]
    17  or the sale of food items typically consumed with  wine,  including  but
    18  not  limited  to  cheeses,  fruits,  vegetables,  chocolates, breads and
    19  crackers, shall not constitute engaging in another business  within  the
    20  meaning of this subdivision. Any fee obtained from the sale of an educa-
    21  tional seminar shall not be considered as a fee for any tasting that may
    22  be  offered  during  an educational seminar, provided that such tastings
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02751-01-9

        A. 1953                             2
     1  are available to persons who have not paid to attend the seminar and all
     2  tastings are conducted in accordance with section sixty-three-a of  this
     3  article.
     4    § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law
     5  is REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 5.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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