STATE OF NEW YORK
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1441
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Econom-
ic Development and Small Business
AN ACT to credit days to retail on-premises licensees that were unable
to operate as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; and providing for the
repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
2 the state liquor authority is authorized to grant a license credit to
3 any on-premises licensee and any manufacturing licensee with on-premises
4 retail privileges that are licensed pursuant to the alcoholic beverage
5 control law to receive a credit to the next renewal of their license on
6 a pro-rata basis for each inactive day, up to a maximum of three hundred
7 sixty-five days. An inactive day shall mean each day between March 7,
8 2020 and March 7, 2021 that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic or the govern-
9 ment response to the pandemic, the licensee was closed, or ceased all
10 on-premises retail business functions that require a license under the
11 alcoholic beverage control law. The on-premises licensee and any manu-
12 facturing licensee with on-premises retail privileges shall document to
13 the state liquor authority, on a form provided by the authority, the
14 number of inactive days, up to a maximum of three hundred sixty-five
15 days, that they are claiming for a credit to be added to their next
16 retail on-premise license renewal.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
18 deemed repealed January 1, 2026.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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