Requires a retail licensee for on-premises consumption to maintain and make available to customers, at no charge, a device which measures blood alcohol content.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6780
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK, TAYLOR, DAVILA -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
requiring retail licensees for on-premises consumption to maintain
devices which measure blood alcohol content for optional use by
patrons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 106 of the alcoholic beverage control law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
3 18. Each retail licensee for on-premises consumption shall keep and
4 maintain upon the licensed premises a device approved by the authority
5 which measures blood alcohol content. Such device shall be located in
6 any area easily accessible to patrons and shall be made available for
7 use by patrons at no charge.
8 § 2. Section 109 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by
9 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
10 3. Any renewal of a license to sell at retail for on-premises consump-
11 tion shall be accompanied by proof that such premises is equipped with a
12 device to measure blood alcohol content pursuant to section one hundred
13 six of this article.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
16 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
17 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
18 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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