Bill Text: NY A01370 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows two or more retail licensees for on-premises consumption to join in a cooperative agreement for the purchase of alcoholic beverages in larger quantity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to economic development [A01370 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01370-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1370
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. CAHILL, MAGEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         COOK, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic
         Development
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
         allowing  retail  licensees  for  on-premises consumption to join in a
         cooperative agreement for the purchase of alcoholic beverages
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a
    2  new section 106-c to read as follows:
    3    S 106-C. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS BY LICENSEES TO  SELL  AT  RETAIL  FOR
    4  CONSUMPTION  ON  THE  PREMISES.  ANY  TWO  OR  MORE RETAIL LICENSEES FOR
    5  ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION MAY JOIN IN  A  COOPERATIVE  AGREEMENT  TO  MAKE
    6  JOINT  PURCHASES  OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN LARGER QUANTITIES THAN MIGHT
    7  OTHERWISE BE PURCHASED; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ALL ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGES
    8  PURCHASED  PURSUANT  TO  ANY SUCH AGREEMENT SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO NONE
    9  OTHER THAN A LICENSEE WHO IS A PARTY TO SUCH AGREEMENT.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   11  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   12  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
   13  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
   14  authorized and directed to be made and completed  by  the  state  liquor
   15  authority on or before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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