Authorizes the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at stadiums, arenas or places of entertainment having a permanent seating capacity in excess of eighteen thousand persons, at eleven a.m. on Sunday.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7045--B
IN SENATE
April 25, 2012
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Introduced by Sens. GRISANTI, MAZIARZ -- 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 --
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
authorizing the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at certain stadi-
ums, arenas or places of entertainment at eleven a.m. on Sunday
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 106 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 5. No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, offered for sale or given
5 away upon any premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail
6 for on-premises consumption, during the following hours:
7 (a) Sunday, from four ante meridiem to twelve noon.
8 (b) On any other day between four ante meridiem and eight ante meri-
9 diem.
10 Unless otherwise approved by the authority pursuant to subdivision
11 eleven of section seventeen of this chapter, where any rule has been
12 adopted in a county on or before April first, nineteen hundred ninety-
13 five, further restricting the hours of sale for alcoholic beverages,
14 such restricted hours shall be the hours, during which the sale of alco-
15 holic beverages at retail for on-premises consumption shall not be
16 permitted within such county.
17 Nor shall any person be permitted to consume any alcoholic beverages
18 upon any such premises later than one-half hour after the start of the
19 prohibited hours of sale provided for in this section.
20 Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, no alcoholic bever-
21 ages shall be sold, offered for sale or given away at any stadium, arena
22 or place of entertainment having a permanent seating capacity in excess
23 of eighteen thousand persons, licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at
24 retail for on-premises consumption on Sunday, from four ante meridiem to
25 eleven ante meridiem.
26 § 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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