Relates to the definition of a catering establishment and removes the requirement that such establishment be for not less than fifty persons at any one function, occasion or event.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7910
IN SENATE
March 2, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- 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 the
definition of a catering establishment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7-a of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as added by chapter 682 of the laws of 1935, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 7-a. "Catering establishment" means and includes any premises owned or
5 operated by any person, firm, association, partnership or corporation
6 who or which regularly and in a bona fide manner furnishes for hire
7 therein one or more ballrooms, reception rooms, dining rooms, banquet
8 halls, dancing halls or similar places of assemblage for a particular
9 function, occasion or event and/or who or which furnishes provisions and
10 service for consumption or use at such function, occasion or event. Such
11 premises must have suitable and adequate facilities and accommodations
12 to provide food and service [for not less than fifty persons at any one
13 function, occasion or event] and shall in no event be deemed to include
14 any taxi dance hall or any other premises at which public dances are
15 regularly scheduled to be held daily, weekly or monthly and to which the
16 general public is invited.
17 § 2. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of
18 any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect
19 the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or of
20 any other application of any provision of this act, which can be given
21 effect without that provision or application; and to that end, the
22 provisions and applications of this act are severable.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14217-01-9
