Provides that the liquor authority shall not consider the financial impact on, or any objections made by, competing existing licensees in the determination to grant a license to operate a liquor store.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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677
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
determinations by the authority with regard to licenses to sell liquor
and/or wines for consumption off the premises
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 the issuance of a
5 new license or under section one hundred eleven of this chapter with
6 respect to the transfer to any other premises of a license issued here-
7 under, shall be made in accordance with public convenience and
8 advantage; provided, however, that such determination shall not consider
9 the financial impact on, or any objections made by, existing competing
10 licensees.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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