Permits certain retail licensees to purchase wine and liquor from certain other retail licensees, the official text

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                                  409--A
     Cal. No. 630
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
   and Government Operations -- 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
   permitting certain retail licensees to purchase wine and  liquor  from
   certain other retail licensees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 106  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
   2-B.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER TO THE CONTRARY, A
 RETAIL LICENSEE FOR  ON-PREMISES  CONSUMPTION  SHALL  BE  AUTHORIZED  TO
 PURCHASE  UP  TO SIX BOTTLES OF WINE OR LIQUOR IN THE AGGREGATE PER WEEK
 FROM AN OFF-PREMISES RETAIL LICENSEE, AND MAY RESELL ANY WINE AND LIQUOR
 SO PURCHASED FOR CONSUMPTION ON THE PREMISES LICENSED THEREFOR.
   § 2. Section 105 of the alcoholic beverage control law is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 2 to read as follows:
   2.  (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER TO THE CONTRARY,
 A RETAIL LICENSEE TO SELL LIQUOR AND/OR WINE  FOR  CONSUMPTION  OFF  THE
 PREMISES SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO SELL UP TO SIX BOTTLES OF WINE OR LIQUOR
 IN  THE AGGREGATE PER WEEK TO A RETAIL LICENSEE FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMP-
 TION.
   (B) BOTH THE RETAIL  LICENSEE  FOR  ON-PREMISES  CONSUMPTION  AND  THE
 RETAIL  LICENSEE  FOR  OFF-PREMISES CONSUMPTION SHALL RETAIN EVIDENCE OF
 EACH PURCHASE OF WINE AND LIQUOR FROM A RETAILER LICENSED TO SELL LIQUOR
 AND/OR WINE FOR CONSUMPTION OFF THE PREMISES IN THE FORM OF  A  PURCHASE
 RECEIPT  SHOWING  THE  NAME  OF  THE  RETAILER,  THE DATE OF PURCHASE, A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00041-07-5
 S. 409--A                           2
 
 DESCRIPTION OF THE ALCOHOL BEVERAGES PURCHASED, AND THE PRICE  PAID  FOR
 THE  ALCOHOL  BEVERAGES. THE RETAIL LICENSEE FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION
 AND THE RETAIL LICENSEE FOR OFF-PREMISES CONSUMPTION  SHALL  RETAIN  THE
 RECEIPT AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION BY THE STATE LIQUOR AUTHOR-
 ITY AND ITS DULY AUTHORIZED AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.