Bill Text: NY S01116 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to permitting licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to sell additional related items including gift baskets, glassware, accessories, novelty clothing, liquor candy, gift bags and books.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [S01116 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S01116-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1116
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
         opment and Small Business
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
         permitting licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for  consump-
         tion off the premises to sell additional related items
         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 non-carbonated, non-flavored
   11  mineral waters, spring waters and drinking waters or the sale of glasses
   12  designed for the consumption of wine, racks designed for the storage  of
   13  wine,  and  devices  designed  to  minimize oxidation in bottles of wine
   14  which have been uncorked,  ADDITIONAL  ITEMS  RELATED  TO  THE  SALE  OF
   15  LIQUOR,  INCLUDING  BUT NOT LIMITED TO NOVELTY CLOTHING, LIQUOR AND WINE
   16  ACCESSORIES, GLASSWARE, PRE-PACKAGED GIFT BASKETS CONTAINING  LIQUOR  OR
   17  WINE  WITH  ACCESSORIES,  LIQUOR  CANDY,  GIFT BAGS AND BOOKS, shall not
   18  constitute engaging in another  business  within  the  meaning  of  this
   19  subdivision.
   20    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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