STATE OF NEW YORK
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3657
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
providing a multiple event caterer's permit
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 98 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by section 21 of part Z of chapter 85 of the
3 laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. The liquor authority is hereby authorized to issue to [caterers and
5 other] persons holding a license to sell alcoholic beverages at retail
6 for consumption on the premises furnishing provisions and service for
7 use at a particular function[, occasion or event] in a hotel, restau-
8 rant, club, ballroom or other premises a temporary indoor permit effec-
9 tive for a period not to exceed twenty-four consecutive hours, which
10 shall authorize the service of alcoholic beverages at such function,
11 occasion or event within the hours, fixed by or pursuant to subdivision
12 five of section one hundred six of this chapter, during which alcoholic
13 beverages may lawfully be sold or served upon premises licensed to sell
14 alcoholic beverages at retail for on-premises consumption in the commu-
15 nity in which is located the premises in which such function, occasion
16 or event is held.
17 (a) The fee therefor shall be thirty-eight dollars.
18 (b) Such a permit and the exercise of the privilege granted thereby
19 may be [subjected] subject to such rules by the liquor authority as it
20 deems necessary and such rules as are in conformity with the provisions
21 of subdivision two of this section.
22 (c) Such a permit may also be issued for functions, occasions or
23 events at premises for which a summer license has been previously issued
24 pursuant to this chapter.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Section 98 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. In lieu of a permit issued under subdivision one of this section,
4 the liquor authority is hereby authorized to issue to such licensees a
5 permit effective for a one year period which shall authorize the service
6 of alcoholic beverages at multiple functions.
7 (a) The fee therefor shall be two thousand dollars.
8 (b) Such a permit and the exercise of the privilege granted thereby
9 may be subject to such rules by the liquor authority as it deems neces-
10 sary.
11 (c) A permit issued under this subdivision shall not be used at any
12 premises located in a municipality with a population of one million or
13 more.
14 § 3. Section 98 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by
15 adding two new subdivisions 6 and 7 to read as follows:
16 6. For good cause shown, the liquor authority may deny a permit for a
17 particular licensee or for a particular function.
18 (a) An application for a permit under subdivision one, two, three or
19 five of this section shall be filed with the liquor authority at least
20 fifteen days before the function.
21 (b) The holder of an annual permit issued under subdivision one-a of
22 this section shall provide the liquor authority in writing with the
23 location of the event and such other information as may be required at
24 least fifteen days before the function. The location shall be deemed
25 approved within seven days unless the liquor authority notifies the
26 permit holder of its objection.
27 7. A permit issued under this section, or in the case of an annual
28 permit a copy of such permit, shall be posted and displayed at all times
29 in a conspicuous place at the event location during such times as alco-
30 holic beverages are being sold or served.
31 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day
32 after it shall have become a law.
