Authorizes private membership establishments to have certain licenses for sale of alcohol for consumption on premises; establishes a private membership establishment must include one hundred or more members.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6420
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
authorizing private membership establishments to have certain licenses
for sale of alcohol
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 39 to read as follows:
3 39. "Private membership establishment" shall mean an association oper-
4 ated by an individual, corporation, partnership, company, or any other
5 for-profit entity which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of a premises
6 used exclusively for such association's purposes, and which is operated
7 solely for a recreational, social, communal workspace or athletic
8 purposes. A "member" of a private membership establishment shall mean a
9 person who, whether a charter member or admitted in agreement with the
10 by-laws of such private membership establishment, has become a bona fide
11 member thereof, who maintains the private membership by the payment of
12 their annual dues in a bona fide manner in accordance with the by-laws
13 and whose name and address is entered on such private membership estab-
14 lishment's list of members. A private membership establishment must have
15 one hundred or more members and shall be subject to the provisions of
16 section one hundred ten of this chapter. Private membership establish-
17 ments may have ticketed events for their members or members' guests, but
18 a business or facility that sells tickets to the general public shall
19 not be considered a private membership establishment.
20 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage control
21 law, as amended by chapter 258 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read
22 as follows:
23 5. No retail license under this section shall be granted except for
24 such premises as are being conducted as a bona fide hotel provided that
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 a restaurant is operated in such premises, restaurant, catering estab-
2 lishment, club, private membership establishment, railroad car, vessel
3 or aircraft being operated on regularly scheduled flights by a United
4 States certificated airline.
5 § 3. Subdivision 8 of section 106 of the alcoholic beverage control
6 law is amended to read as follows:
7 8. A private membership establishment, club or a luncheon club
8 licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption shall
9 be permitted to sell such beverages only to its members and to their
10 guests accompanying them.
11 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
