Bill Text: NY A08392 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes retailers who sell liquor for off premises consumption to sell greeting cards and gift wrapping supplies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to economic development [A08392 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08392-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8392
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                  September 11, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Economic Development
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
         authorizing  retailers who sell liquor for off premises consumption to
         sell greeting cards and gift wrapping supplies
         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 603 of the laws of 1992,  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 GREETING CARDS  OR  GIFT  WRAPPING
   11  SUPPLIES,  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, shall not constitute engaging in another business within
   16  the meaning of this subdivision.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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