STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
8578
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 21, 2025
___________
Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
increasing the capacity needed to be considered a bottle club
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 64-b of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by chapter 1043 of the laws of 1971, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation
5 operating a place for profit or pecuniary gain, with a capacity for the
6 assemblage of [twenty] one hundred or more persons to permit a person or
7 persons to come to the place of assembly for the purpose of consuming
8 alcoholic beverages on said premises, which alcoholic beverages are
9 either provided by the operator of the place of assembly, [his] their
10 agents, servants or employees, or are brought onto said premises by the
11 person or persons assembling at such place, unless an appropriate
12 license has first been obtained from the state liquor authority by the
13 operator of said place of assembly. Nothing in this section shall be
14 construed as affecting the definition of place of assembly in this chap-
15 ter or any other law. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit or
16 restrict the leasing or use of such place of assemblage as defined here-
17 in by any organization or club enumerated in subdivision seven hereof.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10773-01-5
