Relates to the sale of tickets for charity sponsored events not taking place on the premises of a licensee to sell alcoholic beverages not constituting gambling.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5674
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 27, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to char-
ity sponsored events
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 106 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by chapter 919 of the laws of 1986, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 6. No person licensed to sell alcoholic beverages shall suffer or
5 permit any gambling on the licensed premises, or suffer or permit such
6 premises to become disorderly. The use of the licensed premises, or any
7 part thereof, for the sale of lottery tickets, playing of bingo or games
8 of chance, [or] as a simulcast facility or simulcast theater pursuant to
9 the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, or for the sale of
10 tickets related to a charity sponsored event not taking place on the
11 premises of the licensee, when duly authorized and lawfully conducted
12 thereon, shall not constitute gambling within the meaning of this subdi-
13 vision. In the case of a charity sponsored event, the licensee shall be
14 permitted two such events annually, and the licensee shall notify the
15 authority of such event thirty days prior to the sale of any such tick-
16 ets. For purposes of this subdivision, charitable organization shall
17 mean a charity organized under the non-profit or not-for-profit laws of
18 this state, and possessing a federal tax exemption under section 501(c)
19 of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States.
20 § 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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