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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Economic Development
 
 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  chapter  523  of  the  laws  of 2023, 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, sixty-four-b, sixty-four-c and sixty-
 four-e] 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 commence-
 ment  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, SIXTY-FOUR-D AND SIXTY-FOUR-E 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
 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
 [commencing  on  December  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-eight   and

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 concluding  on July thirty-first, two thousand two,] a licensee issued a
 license pursuant to section sixty-four, sixty-four-a [or], sixty-four-b,
 SIXTY-FOUR-C,  SIXTY-FOUR-D OR SIXTY-FOUR-E 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, 2025.