Bill Text: NY S03400 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a municipality or community board to express an opinion before a license is granted to a person to sell liquor at retail for off-premises consumption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [S03400 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03400-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3400
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 1, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
         opment and Small Business
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
         licenses to sell liquor at retail for  consumption  off  the  premises
         issued in the city of New York
         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 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER, IN THE  CITY
    4  OF  NEW  YORK,  UPON  RECEIPT OF AN APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE UNDER THIS
    5  SECTION OR AN APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL UNDER SECTION ONE HUNDRED NINE  OF
    6  THIS CHAPTER, THE APPLICANT SHALL NOTIFY THE COMMUNITY BOARD ESTABLISHED
    7  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED OF THE NEW YORK CITY CHARTER
    8  WITH JURISDICTION OVER THE AREA IN WHICH SUCH LICENSED PREMISES IS TO BE
    9  LOCATED, BY  CERTIFIED  MAIL,  RETURN  RECEIPT  REQUESTED,  WHEREIN  THE
   10  PROSPECTIVE  LICENSED  PREMISES  IS  TO BE LOCATED OR, IN THE CASE OF AN
   11  APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL, WHERE IT IS PRESENTLY LOCATED,  NOT  LESS  THAN
   12  THIRTY  DAYS  PRIOR  TO  THE SUBMISSION OF ITS APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE
   13  UNDER THIS SECTION OR FOR A RENEWAL  THEREOF  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  ONE
   14  HUNDRED NINE OF THIS CHAPTER.  SUCH COMMUNITY BOARD MAY EXPRESS AN OPIN-
   15  ION  FOR OR AGAINST THE GRANTING OF SUCH LICENSE. ANY SUCH OPINION SHALL
   16  BE DEEMED PART OF THE RECORD UPON  WHICH  THE  LIQUOR  BOARD  MAKES  ITS
   17  DETERMINATION TO GRANT OR DENY SUCH LICENSE.
   18    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   19  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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