Bill Text: NY A10376 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Ends the local option of towns and cities to prohibit the sale of alcohol.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to economic development [A10376 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10376-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10376

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bronson) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          ending  the  local  option of towns and cities to prohibit the sale of
          alcohol; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

          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 132 to read as follows:
     3    § 132. Local options on the sale of alcohol prohibited.  Within  every
     4  municipality  which  had  a  referendum  to prohibit the sale of alcohol
     5  under the former article nine of this chapter the sale of alcohol  shall
     6  be  lawful.  No  municipality  shall  enact any local law, ordinance, or
     7  resolution which prohibits the sale of alcohol within  the  entirety  of
     8  such municipality.
     9    § 2.  Article 9 of the alcoholic beverage control law is REPEALED.
    10    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15540-02-2