STATE OF NEW YORK
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3058
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 10, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. SEWARD, BONACIC, LARKIN, MORAHAN, RANZENHOFER, VOLK-
ER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed
to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
providing a multiple event caterer's permit
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 98 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. The liquor authority is hereby authorized to issue to caterers a
4 permit effective for a one year period which shall authorize the service
5 of alcoholic beverages at multiple functions, occasions or events in a
6 hotel, restaurant, club, ballroom, or other premises. Caterers who have
7 been issued such a permit shall be required to provide the liquor
8 authority with information, as specified by the liquor authority,
9 regarding each function or event and its location at least five business
10 days prior to the function or event. The permit shall authorize the
11 service of alcoholic beverages within the hours, fixed by or pursuant to
12 subdivision five of section one hundred six of this chapter, during
13 which alcoholic beverages may lawfully be sold or served upon premises
14 licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail for on-premises consump-
15 tion in the community in which is located the premises in which such
16 function or event is held. A permit shall only be issued to an on-prem-
17 ises liquor, wine or beer licensee. The fee therefore shall be two
18 hundred fifty dollars. Such a permit and the exercise of the privilege
19 granted thereby may be subjected to such rules by the liquor authority
20 as it deems necessary.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
22 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07374-01-9
