Bill Text: NY A00772 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits the sale of certain food items in liquor stores and repeals certain provisions relating to the ownership of more than one liquor license.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-30 - held for consideration in economic development [A00772 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00772-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           772
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
          permitting the sale of certain food items in  liquor  stores;  and  to
          repeal  certain  provisions  of  such law relating to the ownership of
          more than one liquor license
          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 297 of the laws of 2016,  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
     7  of  ice  [or],  the  sale  of  publications, including prerecorded video
     8  and/or audio cassette tapes, designed to help educate consumers in their
     9  knowledge and appreciation of wine and  wine  products,  as  defined  in
    10  section three of this chapter, [or] the sale of non-carbonated, non-fla-
    11  vored  mineral  waters, spring waters and drinking waters [or], the sale
    12  of glasses designed for the consumption of wine, racks designed for  the
    13  storage  of  wine, and devices designed to minimize oxidation in bottles
    14  of wine which have been uncorked, [or the sale of gift bags, gift boxes,
    15  or wrapping, for alcoholic beverages purchased at the licensed premises]
    16  or the sale of food items typically consumed with  wine,  including  but
    17  not  limited  to  cheeses,  fruits,  vegetables,  chocolates, breads and
    18  crackers, shall not constitute engaging in another business  within  the
    19  meaning of this subdivision.
    20    §  2.  Subdivision  4  of section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control
    21  law, as amended by chapter 603 of the laws of 1992, is amended  to  read
    22  as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    4.  No licensee under this section shall be engaged in any other busi-
     2  ness on the licensed premises. The sale of lottery  tickets,  when  duly
     3  authorized and lawfully conducted, the sale of corkscrews [or], the sale
     4  of  ice  [or],  the  sale  of  publications, including prerecorded video
     5  and/or audio cassette tapes, designed to help educate consumers in their
     6  knowledge  and  appreciation  of  wine  and wine products, as defined in
     7  section three of this chapter, [or] the sale of non-carbonated, non-fla-
     8  vored mineral waters, spring waters and drinking waters [or],  the  sale
     9  of  glasses designed for the consumption of wine, racks designed for the
    10  storage of wine, and devices designed to minimize oxidation  in  bottles
    11  of  wine  which  have been uncorked, or the sale of food items typically
    12  consumed with wine, including but not limited to cheeses, fruits,  vege-
    13  tables,  chocolates,  breads and crackers, shall not constitute engaging
    14  in another business within the meaning of this subdivision.
    15    § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law
    16  is REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 5.
    17    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided,  however,  the
    18  amendments  to  subdivision  4  of  section 63 of the alcoholic beverage
    19  control law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expira-
    20  tion of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire  therewith,  when
    21  upon  such  date  the  provisions  of section two of this act shall take
    22  effect.