Bill Text: NY S05674 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the sale of tickets for charity sponsored events not taking place on the premises of a licensee to sell alcoholic beverages not constituting gambling.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S05674 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05674-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5674
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 27, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- 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 char-
         ity sponsored events
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section 106 of the alcoholic beverage
    2  control law, as amended by chapter 919 of the laws of 1986,  is  amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    6.  No  person  licensed  to  sell alcoholic beverages shall suffer or
    5  permit any gambling on the licensed premises, or suffer or  permit  such
    6  premises  to become disorderly. The use of the licensed premises, or any
    7  part thereof, for the sale of lottery tickets, playing of bingo or games
    8  of chance, [or] as a simulcast facility or simulcast theater pursuant to
    9  the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, OR FOR  THE  SALE  OF
   10  TICKETS  RELATED  TO  A  CHARITY SPONSORED EVENT NOT TAKING PLACE ON THE
   11  PREMISES OF THE LICENSEE, when duly authorized  and  lawfully  conducted
   12  thereon, shall not constitute gambling within the meaning of this subdi-
   13  vision.  IN THE CASE OF A CHARITY SPONSORED EVENT, THE LICENSEE SHALL BE
   14  PERMITTED  TWO  SUCH  EVENTS ANNUALLY, AND THE LICENSEE SHALL NOTIFY THE
   15  AUTHORITY OF SUCH EVENT THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE SALE OF ANY SUCH  TICK-
   16  ETS.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION, CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION SHALL
   17  MEAN A CHARITY ORGANIZED UNDER THE NON-PROFIT OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAWS  OF
   18  THIS  STATE, AND POSSESSING A FEDERAL TAX EXEMPTION UNDER SECTION 501(C)
   19  OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF THE UNITED STATES.
   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.
                                                                  LBD11280-01-5