Bill Text: NY A00800 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 800 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes that persons licensed to sell wine may do so on the licensed premises under the auspices of an official agent of a farm winery, winery, wholesaler, importer, or retailer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to economic development [A00800 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00800-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           800

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
          conducting wine tastings on licensed premises

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  80 of the alcoholic beverage
     2  control law, as amended by chapter 221 of the laws of 2011,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    1.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  for  in  this chapter, any person
     5  licensed to sell wine pursuant to this article, or  section  sixty-three
     6  [or],  section seventy-nine or section one hundred five of this chapter,
     7  shall be permitted to conduct wine tastings only upon the licensed prem-
     8  ises. Wine tastings which are conducted under the auspices of  an  offi-
     9  cial  agent  of  a  farm  winery,  winery, wholesaler, [or] importer, or
    10  retailer and where such agent is physically present at all times  during
    11  the  conduct of the tasting, then, in that event, any liability stemming
    12  from a right of action resulting from a wine tasting as authorized here-
    13  in, and in accordance with the provisions of sections 11-100 and  11-101
    14  of the general obligations law, shall accrue to the farm winery, winery,
    15  wholesaler, [or] importer, or retailer.
    16    § 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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