STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2698--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to authorizing the issuance of a license to certain motion picture thea- tres The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 64-a of the alcoholic beverage control law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows: 3 6-a. Notwithstanding subdivision six of this section, the authority 4 may issue a license to serve beer, wine, cider and mead as provided for 5 in section eighty-one-a and section one hundred six of this chapter, to 6 a corporation organized pursuant to the not-for-profit corporation law 7 operating a motion picture theatre on a part-time or full-time basis 8 located on the premises of the following parcel. Provided, however, the 9 authority shall require that (i) the following parcel secures written 10 support, that is filed with the authority, for any such license from the 11 relevant local community boards, (ii) each such license shall stipulate 12 that while beer, wine, cider and mead are being given away, sold, or 13 otherwise made available during the showing of any motion picture or 14 film in any screening room of a motion picture theatre or film theatre 15 located on the premises of the parcel, then every customer, patron, 16 guest or member admitted to such motion picture or film theatre must be 17 twenty-one years of age or older, and the process by which such policy 18 shall be implemented and enforced, and (iii) all proceeds from the sale 19 of beer, wine, cider and mead shall be used to fund or subsidize commu- 20 nity-based benefit programs administered by the licensee. 21 BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the Southerly 22 side of Lafayette Avenue with the Easterly side of Ashland Place; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03551-02-9A. 2698--A 2 1 RUNNING THENCE Easterly along the Southerly side of Lafayette Avenue, 2 one hundred and seventy-six (176) feet one (1) inch to the Westerly side 3 of St. Felix Street, 4 THENCE Southerly along the Westerly side of St. Felix Street, two 5 hundred and fifteen (215) feet; 6 THENCE Westerly parallel with Lafayette Avenue and part of the 7 distance through a party wall, one hundred and eighty-five (185) feet 8 one-half (1/2) of an inch to the Easterly side of Ashland Place; 9 THENCE Northerly along the Easterly side of Ashland Place, two hundred 10 and fifteen (215) feet two and one-quarter (2 1/4) inches to the corner, 11 the point or place of BEGINNING. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.