Bill Text: NY A10695 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes it lawful for a person to possess an open container of alcohol and consume alcohol in public in municipalities in which bars and/or restaurants are not operating at full capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-01 - referred to economic development [A10695 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10695-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10695

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 1, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Carroll) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT in relation to making it lawful for a person to possess  an  open
          container  of  alcohol  and  to  consume  alcohol in public in munici-
          palities in which bars and/or restaurants are not  operating  at  full
          capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and providing for the repeal of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other general, special  or  local  law,
     2  rule  or regulation, code, ordinance or city charter to the contrary, in
     3  any municipality of the state  in  which  bars  and/or  restaurants  are
     4  unable  to operate at full capacity because of restrictions put in place
     5  due to the state disaster emergency declared by executive  order  number
     6  202,  and  any  further amendments or modifications thereto, it shall be
     7  lawful for a person to:
     8    (a) possess an open container of alcohol in public; and
     9    (b) consume alcohol in public.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    11  this  act shall be subject to the expiration of the state disaster emer-
    12  gency declared for the entire state by executive order  number  202  and
    13  any  further amendments or modifications, and as may be further extended
    14  pursuant to section 28 of the executive law,  and  shall  be  deemed  to
    15  expire  and  be repealed therewith; provided, further, that the attorney
    16  general shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission  upon  the
    17  occurrence of the expiration of the state disaster emergency declared by
    18  executive  order number 202 and any further amendments or modifications,
    19  and as may be further extended pursuant to section 28 of  the  executive
    20  law,  in  order  that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely
    21  effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New
    22  York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of  the
    23  legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16497-02-0