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                                  3999--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
   opment  and  Small  Business  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   making  certain  liquor  license  fees  payable  in  installments; and
   providing for the repeal of certain  provisions  upon  the  expiration
   thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 67  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  as
 amended  by  section  4  of part Z of chapter 85 of the laws of 2002, is
 amended to read as follows:
   § 67. License fees, duration  of  licenses;  fee  for  part  of  year.
 [Effective  April  first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-three, licenses] 1.
 LICENSES issued pursuant to sections sixty-one, sixty-two[,] AND  sixty-
 three[, sixty-four, sixty-four-a and sixty-four-b] of this article shall
 be  effective  for  three  years  at three times that annual fee, except
 that, in implementing the purposes of this  [section]  SUBDIVISION,  the
 liquor  authority  shall  schedule  the commencement dates, duration and
 expiration dates thereof to  provide  for  an  equal  cycle  of  license
 renewals issued under each such section through the course of the fiscal
 year.   [Effective   December   first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-eight,
 licenses]
   2. LICENSES  issued  pursuant  to  sections  sixty-four,  sixty-four-a
 [and], sixty-four-b, SIXTY-FOUR-C AND SIXTY-FOUR-D of this article shall
 be  effective  for two years at two times that annual fee ESTABLISHED IN
 SUCH SECTIONS,  except  that,  in  implementing  the  purposes  of  this
 [section] SUBDIVISION, the liquor authority shall schedule the commence-
 ment  dates,  duration  and  expiration  dates thereof to provide for an
 equal cycle of license renewals issued under each such  section  through
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD08788-02-1

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 the  course of the fiscal year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, [commenc-
 ing on December first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and  concluding  on
 July thirty-first, two thousand two,] a licensee issued a license pursu-
 ant to section sixty-four, sixty-four-a [or], sixty-four-b, SIXTY-FOUR-C
 OR  SIXTY-FOUR-D  of  this  article  may elect to remit the fee for such
 license in equal annual installments. Such installments shall be due  on
 dates  established by the liquor authority and the failure of a licensee
 to have remitted such annual installments after a due date  shall  be  a
 violation of this chapter.
   2-A. FOR ALL RENEWALS OF LICENSES ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, THE
 FEE SHALL BE DISCOUNTED BY FIFTY PERCENT.
   3.  For licenses issued for less than the three-year licensing period,
 the license fee shall be levied on a pro-rated basis. The entire license
 fee shall be due and payable at the time of application.
   4. The liquor authority may make such rules as shall be appropriate to
 carry out the purpose of this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect  immediately  and  apply  to  licenses
 issued  or renewed on or after such date; provided, however, that subdi-
 vision 2-a of section 67 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as added
 by section one of this act, shall expire and be deemed repealed December
 31, 2021.