Relates to permitting licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to sell additional related items including gift baskets, glassware, accessories, novelty clothing, liquor candy, gift bags and books.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6722
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 17, 2013
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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
permitting licensees authorized to sell liquor at retail for consump-
tion off the premises to sell additional related items
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 63 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by chapter 603 of the laws of 1992, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 4. No licensee under this section shall be engaged in any other busi-
5 ness on the licensed premises. The sale of lottery tickets, when duly
6 authorized and lawfully conducted, the sale of corkscrews or the sale of
7 ice or the sale of publications, including prerecorded video and/or
8 audio cassette tapes, designed to help educate consumers in their know-
9 ledge and appreciation of wine and wine products, as defined in section
10 three of this chapter, or the sale of non-carbonated, non-flavored
11 mineral waters, spring waters and drinking waters or the sale of glasses
12 designed for the consumption of wine, racks designed for the storage of
13 wine, and devices designed to minimize oxidation in bottles of wine
14 which have been uncorked, additional items related to the sale of
15 liquor, including but not limited to novelty clothing, liquor and wine
16 accessories, glassware, pre-packaged gift baskets containing liquor or
17 wine with accessories, liquor candy, gift bags and books, shall not
18 constitute engaging in another business within the meaning of this
19 subdivision.
20 § 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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