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Assembly Bill A8844

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of a catering establishment

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2019-A8844 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7910
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, ABC L

2019-A8844 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the definition of a catering establishment and removes the requirement that such establishment be for not less than fifty persons at any one function, occasion or event.

2019-A8844 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8844
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
   definition of a catering establishment
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  7-a  of  section 3 of the alcoholic beverage
 control law, as added by chapter 682 of the laws of 1935, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   7-a. "Catering establishment" means and includes any premises owned or
 operated  by  any  person, firm, association, partnership or corporation
 who or which regularly and in a bona  fide  manner  furnishes  for  hire
 therein  one  or  more ballrooms, reception rooms, dining rooms, banquet
 halls, dancing halls or similar places of assemblage  for  a  particular
 function, occasion or event and/or who or which furnishes provisions and
 service for consumption or use at such function, occasion or event. Such
 premises  must  have suitable and adequate facilities and accommodations
 to provide food and service [for not less than fifty persons at any  one
 function,  occasion or event] and shall in no event be deemed to include
 any taxi dance hall or any other premises at  which  public  dances  are
 regularly scheduled to be held daily, weekly or monthly and to which the
 general public is invited.
   § 2. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of
 any  provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect
 the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or  of
 any  other  application of any provision of this act, which can be given
 effect without that provision or  application;  and  to  that  end,  the
 provisions and applications of this act are severable.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14217-01-9

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