Bill Text: NY S07739 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Lowers the costs of the surcharge on kegs of beer from fifty to twenty-five dollars; extends the keg registration program for an additional year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-30 - referred to codes [S07739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S07739-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                      May 5, 2010
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  C. JOHNSON  -- 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 the
         registration fee for kegs; and to amend chapter 192  of  the  laws  of
         2003  amending  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law relating to the
         registration of kegs, in relation to extending the provisions of  such
         chapter
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 105-c of  the  alcoholic  beverage
    2  control  law,  as amended by chapter 632 of the laws of 2008, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    5. Upon the retail sale of beer by the keg for  off-premises  consump-
    5  tion,  the  retail  licensee  shall collect a [fifty] TWENTY-FIVE dollar
    6  registration deposit on each keg of  beer  purchased.  The  registration
    7  deposit  shall  be  collected  in  addition to the purchase price of the
    8  beer, taxes thereon and any other deposit  collected  by  the  licensee.
    9  Upon  the return of a keg to such licensee with the identification label
   10  or tag intact,  the  registration  deposit  shall  be  returned  to  the
   11  purchaser  and  the  retail licensee shall remove such label or tag from
   12  each such keg. The registration deposit on each keg returned without the
   13  identification label or tag required by this section shall be  forfeited
   14  to  the  retail  licensee.  The  registration  deposit  upon any keg not
   15  returned to the retail licensee  within  ninety  days  of  the  date  of
   16  purchase shall also be forfeited to the retail licensee.
   17    S  2. Section 2 of chapter 192 of the laws of 2003, amending the alco-
   18  holic beverage control law relating to  the  registration  of  kegs,  as
   19  amended  by  chapter  316  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
   20  follows:
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   22  it shall have become a law and  shall  expire  and  be  deemed  repealed
   23  November 22, [2010] 2011.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S  3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
    2  ment to section 105-c of the alcoholic  beverage  control  law  made  by
    3  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
    4  shall be deemed repealed therewith.