STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5731 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 15, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 permitting the sale of beer at retail on Sundays; and to repeal certain provisions of the alcoholic beverage control law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 105-a of the alcoholic beverage control law is 2 REPEALED. 3 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 34 of the alcoholic beverage control 4 law, as added by chapter 522 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 4. No tasting shall be held during the hours prohibited by the 7 provisions of [sections] section one hundred five [and one hundred 8 five-a] of this chapter. 9 § 3. Subdivision (d) of section 54-b of the alcoholic beverage control 10 law, as added by chapter 232 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as 11 follows: 12 (d) No tasting shall be held during the hours prohibited by the 13 provisions of [sections] section one hundred five [and one hundred 14 five-a] of this chapter. 15 § 4. Subdivision (d) of section 59-a of the alcoholic beverage control 16 law, as added by chapter 232 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as 17 follows: 18 (d) No tasting shall be held during the hours prohibited by the 19 provisions of section one hundred five [and one hundred five-a] of this 20 chapter. 21 § 5. Subdivision 6 of section 117-a of the alcoholic beverage control 22 law is REPEALED. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10155-01-3
S. 5731 2 1 § 6. Subdivision 4 of section 130 of the alcoholic beverage control 2 law, as amended by chapter 186 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 4. In the city of New York, a summons shall be issued for a violation 5 of the provisions of subdivision fourteen of section one hundred [and] 6 five[, section one hundred and five-a] and subdivision five of section 7 one hundred [and] six of this chapter in the same manner as provided by 8 subdivision h of section one hundred [and] sixteen of the New York city 9 criminal courts act. 10 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.