Bill Text: NY S02456 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires notice to the appropriate community board of any application for a liquor store license in a city having a population of one million or more not less than 30 days before submission of such application.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S02456 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02456-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2456--A
            Cal. No. 280
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment  and  Small Business -- reported favorably from said committee,
          ordered to first and  second  report,  ordered  to  a  third  reading,
          amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
          third reading
        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          requiring notice to the appropriate community board of any application
          for  liquor store license in a city having a population of one million
          or more
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 1-b to read as follows:
     3    1-b. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, upon receipt
     4  in  a  city having a population of one million or more of an application
     5  for a license under this section, the applicant shall notify the  commu-
     6  nity  board  established pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred of the
     7  New York city charter with jurisdiction over  the  area  in  which  such
     8  licensed  premises  is  to  be located by certified mail, return receipt
     9  requested, not less than thirty days prior  to  the  submission  of  its
    10  application  for a license under this section.  Such community board may
    11  express an opinion for or against the granting of such license. Any such
    12  opinion shall be deemed part of the record upon which the  liquor  board
    13  makes its determination to grant or deny such license.
    14    § 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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