Bill Text: NY S03485 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the capacity needed to be considered a bottle club from twenty persons to one hundred persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [S03485 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03485-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3485

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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
          increasing the capacity needed to be considered a bottle club

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 64-b of the alcoholic beverage
     2  control law, as amended by chapter 1043 of the laws of 1971, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    1.  It  shall  be  unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation
     5  operating a place for profit or pecuniary gain, with a capacity for  the
     6  assemblage of [twenty] one hundred or more persons to permit a person or
     7  persons  to  come  to the place of assembly for the purpose of consuming
     8  alcoholic beverages on said  premises,  which  alcoholic  beverages  are
     9  either  provided  by  the operator of the place of assembly, his agents,
    10  servants or employees, or are brought onto said premises by  the  person
    11  or  persons  assembling at such place, unless an appropriate license has
    12  first been obtained from the state liquor authority by the  operator  of
    13  said  place  of  assembly. Nothing in this section shall be construed as
    14  affecting the definition of place of assembly in  this  chapter  or  any
    15  other  law.    Nothing  contained  herein shall prohibit or restrict the
    16  leasing or use of such place of assemblage  as  defined  herein  by  any
    17  organization or club enumerated in subdivision seven hereof.
    18    § 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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