Bill Text: NY S03058 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3058 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes the state liquor authority to issue multiple event caterer's permits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S03058 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S03058-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3058
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 10, 2009
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       Introduced by Sens. SEWARD, BONACIC, LARKIN, MORAHAN, RANZENHOFER, VOLK-
         ER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed
         to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
         providing a multiple event caterer's permit
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 98 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
    2  by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    3    1-A.  THE LIQUOR AUTHORITY IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE TO CATERERS A
    4  PERMIT EFFECTIVE FOR A ONE YEAR PERIOD WHICH SHALL AUTHORIZE THE SERVICE
    5  OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS, OCCASIONS OR EVENTS  IN  A
    6  HOTEL,  RESTAURANT, CLUB, BALLROOM, OR OTHER PREMISES. CATERERS WHO HAVE
    7  BEEN ISSUED SUCH A PERMIT  SHALL  BE  REQUIRED  TO  PROVIDE  THE  LIQUOR
    8  AUTHORITY  WITH  INFORMATION,  AS  SPECIFIED  BY  THE  LIQUOR AUTHORITY,
    9  REGARDING EACH FUNCTION OR EVENT AND ITS LOCATION AT LEAST FIVE BUSINESS
   10  DAYS PRIOR TO THE FUNCTION OR EVENT.  THE  PERMIT  SHALL  AUTHORIZE  THE
   11  SERVICE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES WITHIN THE HOURS, FIXED BY OR PURSUANT TO
   12  SUBDIVISION  FIVE  OF  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED SIX OF THIS CHAPTER, DURING
   13  WHICH ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES MAY LAWFULLY BE SOLD OR SERVED  UPON  PREMISES
   14  LICENSED  TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT RETAIL FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMP-
   15  TION IN THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH IS LOCATED THE  PREMISES  IN  WHICH  SUCH
   16  FUNCTION  OR EVENT IS HELD. A PERMIT SHALL ONLY BE ISSUED TO AN ON-PREM-
   17  ISES LIQUOR, WINE OR BEER LICENSEE.  THE  FEE  THEREFORE  SHALL  BE  TWO
   18  HUNDRED  FIFTY DOLLARS.  SUCH A PERMIT AND THE EXERCISE OF THE PRIVILEGE
   19  GRANTED THEREBY MAY BE SUBJECTED TO SUCH RULES BY THE  LIQUOR  AUTHORITY
   20  AS IT DEEMS NECESSARY.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   22  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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