Creates a special on-premises license for properties which are located within a designated industrial or economic zoning district, occupy not less than twenty thousand square feet of floor area, and are utilized for the purpose of hosting entertainment or cultural, social, or community events.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8359--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 5, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to
the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations in accord-
ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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
creating a special on-premises license for certain properties
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a
2 new section 97-e to read as follows:
3 § 97-e. Twenty-four hour license to sell liquor, wine, beer, and cider
4 at retail for consumption on the premises. 1. Notwithstanding any
5 provisions of law to the contrary, the liquor authority may issue a
6 twenty-four hour retail liquor, wine, beer, and cider license for
7 on-premises consumption to a facility which:
8 (a) is located within a designated industrial or economic zoning
9 district;
10 (b) occupies not less than twenty thousand square feet of floor area;
11 (c) is utilized for the purpose of hosting entertainment or cultural,
12 social, or community events; and
13 (d) is located at least five hundred feet from a residential building.
14 2. Any license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to all
15 provisions of this chapter not inconsistent with subdivision one of this
16 section and may be subjected to such rules by the liquor authority as it
17 deems necessary and such rules as are in conformity with the provisions
18 of subdivision one of this section.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13296-02-6
