Provides that the sale of an alcoholic beverage by an on-premises retail licensee or permittee to a visibly intoxicated person shall be punishable as a felony.

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A6708-2011 Actions

• Mar 13, 2012: held for consideration in economic development
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to economic development
• Mar 25, 2011: referred to economic development

A6708-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    6708

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                               March 25, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced by M. of A. TENNEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
    on Economic Development

  AN  ACT  to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
    penalty for the illegal sale of an alcoholic  beverage  to  a  visibly
    intoxicated person

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Section 65 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
  by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:

    8. A VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION BY
  ANY PERSON ACTING UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF A LICENSE  OR  PERMIT  TO  SELL
  ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT RETAIL FOR CONSUMPTION ON THE PREMISES SHALL BE A
  FELONY; PROVIDED THE AUTHORIZED SELLER KNOWINGLY SOLD ALCOHOLIC BEVERAG-
  ES TO A VISIBLY INTOXICATED PERSON.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.






   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD09794-01-1