NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7116
SPONSOR: Santabarbara TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
temporary retail permits
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill will make opening a business that requires a liquor license,
such as a restaurant or a bar, easier by limiting the amount of times
the business owner is required to reapply for a temporary license.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
In Section 1, Subdivision 4 of section 97-a of the alcoholic beverage
control law, the word "ninety" is replace with the word . "one hundred
eighty".
JUSTIFICATION:
The average waiting time for a business to receive a permanent liquor
license has been about six months. However, a temporary license is
issued for only a period of 90 days, meaning new business owners need to
reapply for a second temporary license during that time. This bill will
extend the length of the temporary permit to 180 days, which is in line
with the current average wait time to get a permanent liquor license.
This change will also save business owners the cost of the fee to reap-
ply, in addition to removing the uncertainty that comes with having to
apply for a temporary permit more than once for the same location.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
None.
FISCAL. IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
To be determined None to local governments.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7116
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 11, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
temporary retail permits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 97-a of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as added by chapter 396 of the laws of 2010, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 4. A temporary retail permit issued by the authority pursuant to this
5 section shall be for a period not to exceed [ninety] one hundred eighty
6 days. A temporary permit may be extended at the discretion of the
7 authority, for an additional thirty day period upon payment of an addi-
8 tional fee of sixty-four dollars for all retail beer licenses and nine-
9 ty-six dollars for all other temporary permits and upon compliance with
10 all conditions required in this section. The authority may, in its
11 discretion, issue additional thirty day extensions upon payment of the
12 appropriate fee.
13 § 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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