STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
acceptable forms of identification as evidence of age by any such
person for the purchase of any alcoholic beverage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 65-b of the alco-
2 holic beverage control law, as amended by chapter 519 of the laws of
3 1999, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) No licensee, or agent or employee of such licensee shall accept as
5 written evidence of age by any such person for the purchase of any alco-
6 holic beverage, any documentation other than: (i) a valid driver's
7 license or non-driver identification card issued by the commissioner of
8 motor vehicles, the federal government, any United States territory,
9 commonwealth or possession, the District of Columbia, a state government
10 within the United States or a provincial government of the dominion of
11 Canada[, or]; (ii) a valid passport issued by the United States govern-
12 ment or any other country[, or ]; (iii) an identification card issued by
13 the armed forces of the United States; or (iv) an identification card
14 issued by the municipal government of a city in this state having a
15 population of one million or more. Upon the presentation of such driv-
16 er's license or non-driver identification card issued by a governmental
17 entity, such licensee or agent or employee thereof may perform a trans-
18 action scan as a precondition to the sale of any alcoholic beverage.
19 Nothing in this section shall prohibit a licensee or agent or employee
20 from performing such a transaction scan on any of the other documents
21 listed in this subdivision if such documents include a bar code or
22 magnetic strip that [that] may be scanned by a device capable of deci-
23 phering any electronically readable format.
24 § 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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