Bill Text: NY A05423 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes the street level entrance requirement for licenses for selling alcohol at retail for consumption off the premises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-16 - substituted by s1922 [A05423 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05423-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5423
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 23, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Economic Development
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
         removing  the street level entrance requirement for licenses for sell-
         ing alcohol at retail for consumption off the premises
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 105 of the alcoholic beverage
    2  control law, as amended by chapter 536 of the laws of 1966,  is  amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    2.  No  premises  shall  be  licensed  to sell liquors and/or wines at
    5  retail for off premises  consumption,  unless  said  premises  shall  be
    6  located  in  a store[, the principal entrance to which shall be from the
    7  street level and] located on a public thoroughfare in premises which may
    8  be occupied, operated or conducted for business, trade or industry or on
    9  an arcade or sub-surface thoroughfare leading to  a  railroad  terminal.
   10  There  may be not more than one additional entrance which shall be [from
   11  the street level and] located on and giving access to and from a  public
   12  or  private  parking  lot or parking area having space for not less than
   13  five automobiles.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   15  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
   16  ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
   17  mentation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made  on
   18  or before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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