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History
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1109
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to codes
- Print number 7737a
- Amend and recommit to investigations and government operations
- Referred to investigations and government operations
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Authorizes holders of wholesalers' licenses to install and operate 1 ATM at each of their facilities
In Assembly Committee · Rules · Sponsor Robin Schimminger
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Title of bill
An act to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to permitting the holder of a wholesaler's license to install and operate a single automated teller machine
Purpose of the bill
This legislation would authorize holders of wholesalers' licenses to install and operate ATMs at their facilities, as recommended by the New York State Law Revision Commission,
Summary of specific provisions
§ 1- Amends subdivision 1 of § 104 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control law by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to allow for the installation and operation of one automated teller machine.
§ 2- Effective date.
Justification
In its final report, the New York State Law Revision Commission (NYSLRC) recommended that C Licensees be allowed to offer ATMs. ABCL § 104 currently prohibits New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) C-Licensed beer wholesaler/retailers from conducting any other business on the licensed premises, with very few exceptions (the sale of soda, water, cigarettes, potato chips, pretzels, ice, promotional items).
There are approximately 350 C-Licensed beer wholesaler/retailers in New York State, from Montauk to Buffalo. They are typically multi-generational "morn and pop" high-volume beverage centers, that serve primarily retail consumers and some wholesale accounts (the latter mostly taverns, bodegas, social clubs, volunteer fire companies, fraternal organizations and other entities that are too small, or in neighborhoods regarded as undesirable or unprofitable, to be served by franchised wholesalers). In an old advisory opinion dating back to the 1990's, issued when ATMs were a novelty, the SLA concluded that § 104 prohibits C-Licensees from offering the convenience of ATMs to their customers because ATMs constituted the conducting of another business.
The SLA position no longer reflects the reality of either technology or business; ATMs are now a widespread service just like credit cards. The SLA ruling also puts C-licensees at a competitive disadvantage, as all other retail off-premises beer licensees (supermarkets, groceries, convenience stores, gas stations) can offer ATMs.
This amendment will allow C licensed beer wholesaler/retailers to offer ATMs, putting these stores on an equal footing with their competitors, and will allow the many customers of these community-based stores the convenience of ATMs.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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