STATE OF NEW YORK
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7217--A
IN SENATE
May 6, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations -- 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
prohibiting the sale of any powdered or crystalline alcohol product
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by chapter 42 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 1. "Alcoholic beverage" or "beverage" mean and include alcohol, spir-
5 its, liquor, wine, beer, cider and every liquid [or], solid, powder or
6 crystal, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits, wine or beer and
7 capable of being consumed by a human being, and any warehouse receipt,
8 certificate, contract or other document pertaining thereto; except that
9 confectionery containing alcohol as provided by subdivision twelve of
10 section two hundred of the agriculture and markets law and ice cream and
11 other frozen desserts made with wine as provided in subdivision fifteen
12 of section two hundred of the agriculture and markets law shall not be
13 regulated as an "alcoholic beverage" or "beverage" within the meaning of
14 this section where the sale, delivery or giving away is to a person aged
15 twenty-one years or older. The sale, delivery or giving away of ice
16 cream made with wine to a person under the age of twenty-one years may
17 be prosecuted administratively and/or criminally in accordance with the
18 provisions of this chapter.
19 § 2. Section 100 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by
20 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
21 1-a. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or otherwise provide for
22 off-premises consumption, any powdered or crystalline alcoholic product.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14942-02-4
