Allows a municipality or community board to express an opinion before a license is granted to a person to sell liquor at retail for off-premises consumption.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6185
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. MOYA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
licenses to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises
issued in the city of New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in the city
4 of New York, upon receipt of an application for a license under this
5 section or an application for renewal under section one hundred nine of
6 this chapter, the applicant shall notify the community board established
7 pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred of the New York city charter
8 with jurisdiction over the area in which such licensed premises is to be
9 located, by certified mail, return receipt requested, wherein the
10 prospective licensed premises is to be located or, in the case of an
11 application for renewal, where it is presently located, not less than
12 thirty days prior to the submission of its application for a license
13 under this section or for a renewal thereof pursuant to section one
14 hundred nine of this chapter. Such community board may express an opin-
15 ion for or against the granting of such license. Any such opinion shall
16 be deemed part of the record upon which the liquor board makes its
17 determination to grant or deny such license.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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