Bill Text: NY S07045 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at stadiums, arenas or places of entertainment having a permanent seating capacity in excess of eighteen thousand persons, at eleven a.m. on Sunday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-18 - PRINT NUMBER 7045B [S07045 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07045-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7045--B
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 25, 2012
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       Introduced by Sens. GRISANTI, MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
         and Government  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
         ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
         authorizing the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at  certain  stadi-
         ums, arenas or places of entertainment at eleven a.m. on Sunday
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section  106  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
    2  control law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    5.  No  alcoholic  beverages  shall be sold, offered for sale or given
    5  away upon any premises licensed to sell alcoholic  beverages  at  retail
    6  for on-premises consumption, during the following hours:
    7    (a) Sunday, from four ante meridiem to twelve noon.
    8    (b)  On  any other day between four ante meridiem and eight ante meri-
    9  diem.
   10    Unless otherwise approved by the  authority  pursuant  to  subdivision
   11  eleven  of  section  seventeen  of this chapter, where any rule has been
   12  adopted in a county on or before April first, nineteen  hundred  ninety-
   13  five,  further  restricting  the  hours of sale for alcoholic beverages,
   14  such restricted hours shall be the hours, during which the sale of alco-
   15  holic beverages at retail  for  on-premises  consumption  shall  not  be
   16  permitted within such county.
   17    Nor  shall  any person be permitted to consume any alcoholic beverages
   18  upon any such premises later than one-half hour after the start  of  the
   19  prohibited hours of sale provided for in this section.
   20    NOTWITHSTANDING PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, NO ALCOHOLIC BEVER-
   21  AGES SHALL BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE OR GIVEN AWAY AT ANY STADIUM, ARENA
   22  OR  PLACE OF ENTERTAINMENT HAVING A PERMANENT SEATING CAPACITY IN EXCESS
   23  OF EIGHTEEN THOUSAND PERSONS, LICENSED TO SELL  ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGES  AT
   24  RETAIL FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION ON SUNDAY, FROM FOUR ANTE MERIDIEM TO
   25  ELEVEN ANTE MERIDIEM.
   26    S 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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