Bill Text: NY S00163 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Modifies licensing restrictions for manufacturers and wholesalers of alcoholic beverages on licensees who sell at retail for on premises consumption, and restrictions on retail licensees interested directly or indirectly in licensed manufacturers or wholesalers of alcoholic beverages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00163 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00163-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           163

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          licensing  restrictions for manufacturers and wholesalers of alcoholic
          beverages and retail licensees

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

     1    Section  1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 101 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as amended by chapter
     3  318 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    Be interested directly or indirectly in any  premises  licensed  under
     5  this  chapter  where any alcoholic beverage is sold at retail; or in any
     6  business licensed under this chapter devoted wholly or partially to  the
     7  sale  of any alcoholic beverage at retail by stock ownership, interlock-
     8  ing directors, mortgage or lien or any personal or real property, or  by
     9  any other means. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to
    10    §  2.  The  opening  paragraph  of  paragraph (a) of subdivision 13 of
    11  section 106 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as amended by chapter
    12  453 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
    13    No retail licensee for on-premises consumption  shall  be  interested,
    14  directly  or  indirectly,  in  any  premises licensed under this chapter
    15  where liquors, wines or beer are manufactured or sold at  wholesale,  by
    16  stock  ownership,  interlocking  directors,  mortgage  or  lien  on  any
    17  personal or real property or by any other means,  except  that  liquors,
    18  wines  or  beer  may  be  manufactured  or  sold wholesale by the person
    19  licensed as a manufacturer or wholesaler thereof:
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02120-01-3
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