STATE OF NEW YORK
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351--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, BALL -- 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
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
selling of alcoholic beverages; and to repeal certain provisions of
such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 14 of section 105 of the alco-
2 holic beverage control law, as amended by section 1 of part U of chapter
3 63 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) No premises licensed to sell liquor and/or wine for off-premises
5 consumption shall be permitted to remain open[:
6 (i) On Sunday before twelve o'clock post meridian and after nine
7 o'clock post meridian.
8 (ii) On] on any day between midnight and eight o'clock antemeridian.
9 [(iii) On the twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day.]
10 In any community where daylight saving time is in effect, such time
11 shall be deemed the standard time for the purpose of this subdivision.
12 § 2. Section 105-a of the alcoholic beverage control law is REPEALED.
13 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 106 of the alcoholic beverage control
14 law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
15 follows:
16 5. No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, offered for sale or given
17 away upon any premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail
18 for on-premises consumption[, during the following hours:
19 (a) Sunday, from four ante meridiem to twelve noon.
20 (b) On] on any [other] day between four ante meridiem and eight ante
21 meridiem.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Unless otherwise approved by the authority pursuant to subdivision
2 [eleven] nine of section seventeen of this chapter, where any rule has
3 been adopted in a county on or before April first, nineteen hundred
4 ninety-five, further restricting the hours of sale for alcoholic bever-
5 ages, such restricted hours shall be the hours, during which the sale of
6 alcoholic beverages at retail for on-premises consumption shall not be
7 permitted within such county.
8 Nor shall any person be permitted to consume any alcoholic beverages
9 upon any such premises later than one-half hour after the start of the
10 prohibited hours of sale provided for in this section.
11 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
