Requires notice to the appropriate community board of any application for a liquor store license in a city having a population of one million or more not less than 30 days before submission of such application.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2456--A
Cal. No. 280
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel-
opment and Small Business -- reported favorably from said committee,
ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
requiring notice to the appropriate community board of any application
for liquor store license in a city having a population of one million
or more
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 1-b to read as follows:
3 1-b. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, upon receipt
4 in a city having a population of one million or more of an application
5 for a license under this section, the applicant shall notify the commu-
6 nity board established pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred of the
7 New York city charter with jurisdiction over the area in which such
8 licensed premises is to be located by certified mail, return receipt
9 requested, not less than thirty days prior to the submission of its
10 application for a license under this section. Such community board may
11 express an opinion for or against the granting of such license. Any such
12 opinion shall be deemed part of the record upon which the liquor board
13 makes its determination to grant or deny such license.
14 § 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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