Bill Text: NY A06185 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6185 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows a municipality or community board to express an opinion before a license is granted to a person to sell liquor at retail for off-premises consumption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-18 - advanced to third reading cal.436 [A06185 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06185-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6185
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 27, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. MOYA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development
        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          licenses  to  sell  liquor  at retail for consumption off the premises
          issued in the city of New York
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in the city
     4  of New York, upon receipt of an application for  a  license  under  this
     5  section  or an application for renewal under section one hundred nine of
     6  this chapter, the applicant shall notify the community board established
     7  pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred of the New  York  city  charter
     8  with jurisdiction over the area in which such licensed premises is to be
     9  located,  by  certified  mail,  return  receipt  requested,  wherein the
    10  prospective licensed premises is to be located or, in  the  case  of  an
    11  application  for  renewal,  where it is presently located, not less than
    12  thirty days prior to the submission of its  application  for  a  license
    13  under  this  section  or  for  a renewal thereof pursuant to section one
    14  hundred nine of this chapter.  Such community board may express an opin-
    15  ion for or against the granting of such license. Any such opinion  shall
    16  be  deemed  part  of  the  record  upon which the liquor board makes its
    17  determination to grant or deny such license.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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