STATE OF NEW YORK
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8617--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MORELLE, LUPARDO, GOTTFRIED, BRINDISI, LIFTON,
ZEBROWSKI, BENEDETTO, FAHY, BLAKE, RUSSELL, RICHARDSON, STECK, CERET-
TO, PALMESANO, STIRPE, JEAN-PIERRE, McDONALD, SANTABARBARA, RYAN --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, GALEF, HEVESI, HIKIND, MAGEE,
ROZIC, SKARTADOS, STEC, WOERNER -- 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
authorizing the on premise sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday morn-
ings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 106 of the alco-
2 holic beverage control law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of
3 1995, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Sunday, from four ante meridiem to twelve noon, except pursuant to
5 section ninety-nine-h or section ninety-nine-i of this chapter.
6 § 2. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a new
7 section 99-h to read as follows:
8 § 99-h. Annual permit to remain open during certain hours of the morn-
9 ing. 1. Any person licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption
10 on the premises pursuant to this chapter or any applicant for an
11 original license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the
12 premises pursuant to this chapter may apply to the liquor authority for
13 an annual permit to remain open on Sunday between the hours of eight
14 o'clock a.m. and noon. Any applicant for such an annual permit shall
15 provide notice to the local municipality of such application as provided
16 in section one hundred ten-b of this chapter.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. The annual fee for such annual permit shall be two hundred fifty
2 dollars in the counties of New York, Kings, Bronx and Queens; one
3 hundred fifty dollars in the county of Richmond and in cities having a
4 population of more than one hundred thousand and less than one million;
5 one hundred dollars in cities having a population of more than fifty
6 thousand and less than one hundred thousand; and the sum of fifty
7 dollars elsewhere.
8 3. Such annual permit and the exercise of the privileges granted ther-
9 eunder are subject to such rules as the liquor authority may deem neces-
10 sary.
11 § 3. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a new
12 section 99-i to read as follows:
13 § 99-i. Special permit to remain open during certain hours of the
14 morning. 1. Any person licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for consump-
15 tion on the premises pursuant to this chapter may apply to the liquor
16 authority for a special permit to remain open Sunday between the hours
17 of eight o'clock a.m. and noon. The fee for such permit shall be fifty
18 dollars per day.
19 2. Such permits and the exercise of the privileges granted thereunder
20 are subject to such rules as the liquor authority may deem necessary.
21 § 4. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
