STATE OF NEW YORK
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8548--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development -- recommitted to the Committee on Economic
Development in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 the
adoption of a good cause for disapproval standard for off-premises
retail licenses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 63 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as added by chapter 1024 of the laws of 1965, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 6. Determinations under this section with respect to approving the
5 issuance of a new license or under section one hundred eleven of this
6 chapter with respect to the transfer to any other premises of a license
7 issued hereunder, shall be made [in accordance with public convenience
8 and advantage] unless there is good cause shown for disapproval by the
9 liquor authority.
10 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 79 of the alcoholic beverage control
11 law, as added by chapter 1024 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as
12 follows:
13 4. Determinations under this section with respect to approving the
14 issuance of a new license or under section one hundred eleven of this
15 chapter with respect to the transfer to any other premises of a license
16 issued hereunder shall be made [in accordance with public convenience
17 and advantage] unless there is good cause shown for disapproval by the
18 liquor authority.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04805-03-6
