Assembly Bill A10306

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Allows cooperative agreements by licensees to sell wine or liquor at retail for consumption off the premises

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A10306 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8964
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Add §106-c, ABC L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A353, A9060, S3460

2021-A10306 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows certain licensees to form cooperative agreements to make joint purchases of alcoholic beverages provided that such agreement and activity conform to certain standards.

2021-A10306 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10306
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bronson) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   allowing cooperative agreements by licensees to sell wine or liquor at
   retail for consumption off the premises
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 106-c to read as follows:
   § 106-C. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS BY LICENSEES TO SELL WINE OR LIQUOR AT
 RETAIL FOR CONSUMPTION OFF THE PREMISES. NO MORE THAN TEN LICENSEES WITH
 LICENSES  FOR  THE  SALE  AT  RETAIL  OF WINE OR LIQUOR FOR OFF-PREMISES
 CONSUMPTION AS ESTABLISHED IN SECTION SIXTY-THREE  OR  SECTION  SEVENTY-
 NINE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER,  MAY JOIN A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO MAKE JOINT
 PURCHASES OF ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGES,  PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH  AGREEMENT  AND
 ACTIVITY SHALL CONFORM TO THE FOLLOWING STANDARDS:
   1.  THE  COOPERATIVE MAY HIRE EMPLOYEES TO ACT IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE OR
 MANAGEMENT CAPACITY FOR THE COOPERATIVE'S PURCHASE, STORAGE  AND  TRANS-
 PORTATION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.  SUCH EMPLOYEES SHALL BE IN COMPLIANCE
 WITH  SECTIONS  ONE  HUNDRED  TWENTY-SIX AND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT OF
 THIS ARTICLE;
   2. NO COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT SHALL PROHIBIT ANY LICENSEE  FROM  JOINING
 ANY OTHER COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT;
   3. NO COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT SHALL PROHIBIT ANY RETAILER FROM ADVERTIS-
 ING OR SELLING ANY PRODUCT AT ANY OTHERWISE LAWFUL PRICE;
   4. ANY LICENSEE MAY WITHDRAW FROM A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITHIN THIR-
 TY  DAYS  OF FORMING SUCH COOPERATIVE BY WRITTEN NOTICE TO THE REMAINING
 PARTICIPATING MEMBERS OF SUCH COOPERATIVE  AND  NO  PENALTIES  SHALL  BE
 CHARGED FOR SUCH WITHDRAWAL;
   5.  ALL  PURCHASES ON CREDIT THROUGH OR BY COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT SHALL
 BE REDUCED TO WRITING, SIGNED BY  THE  WHOLESALER  AND  EACH  INDIVIDUAL
 PARTICIPATING  MEMBER OF THE COOPERATIVE AND BE CONSISTENT WITH SECTIONS
 ONE HUNDRED ONE-AA AND ONE HUNDRED ONE-AAA OF THIS ARTICLE.  ALL  CREDIT
 TERMS  SHALL  INCLUDE  ADEQUATE ASSURANCES OF PAYMENT BY EACH INDIVIDUAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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