New York A 6936: Authorizes a certain property operating as a private membership establishment to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption to members and their guests

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A06936 Summary:

BILL NOA06936A

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Amd §§3, 64 & 106, ABC L

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Authorizes a certain property operating as a private membership establishment to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption to members and their guests; defines "private membership establishment"; provides that such provisions shall not be interpreted to authorize any form of discrimination.

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BILL NOA06936A

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03/18/2025referred to economic development

05/08/2025amend and recommit to economic development

05/08/2025print number 6936a

01/07/2026referred to economic development

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6936--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 18, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Economic Development -- 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
 authorizing a certain property operating as a private membership
 establishment to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption to members
 and their guests

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 3 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
 2 by adding a new subdivision 39 to read as follows:
 3 39. "Private membership establishment" means an association operated
 4 by an individual, corporation, partnership, company, or any other for-
 5 profit entity which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of a premises used
 6 exclusively for such association's purposes, and which is operated sole-
 7 ly for a recreational, social, communal workspace or athletic purposes.
 8 A "member" of a private membership establishment shall mean a person
 9 who, whether a charter member or admitted in agreement with the by-laws
 10 of such private membership establishment, has become a bona fide member
 11 thereof, who maintains the private membership by the payment of their
 12 annual dues in a bona fide manner in accordance with the by-laws and
 13 whose name and address is entered on such private membership establish-
 14 ment's list of members. A private membership establishment must have one
 15 hundred or more members and shall be subject to the provisions of
 16 section one hundred ten of this chapter. Private membership establish-
 17 ments may have ticketed events for their members or members' guests, but
 18 a business or facility that sells tickets to the general public shall
 19 not be considered a private membership establishment.
 20 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage control
 21 law, as amended by chapter 258 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read
 22 as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11016-02-5

 A. 6936--A 2

 1 5. (a) No retail license under this section shall be granted except
 2 for such premises as are being conducted as a bona fide hotel provided
 3 that a restaurant is operated in such premises, restaurant, catering
 4 establishment, club, railroad car, vessel or aircraft being operated on
 5 regularly scheduled flights by a United States certificated airline.
 6 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
 7 sion, the authority may issue a retail license for on-premises consump-
 8 tion for a premises being conducted as a private membership establish-
 9 ment, provided that a restaurant is operated in such premises, bounded
 10 and described as follows:
 11 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and
 12 being in the Borough of Manhattan, City, County, and State of New York,
 13 bounded and described as follows:
 14 BEGINNING at the intersection of the southerly line of South Street,
 15 135 feet wide, and the westerly line of Block 2 Lot 3;
 16 THENCE RUNNING the following seven (7) courses and distances:
 17 1. Along said westerly line of Block 2 Lot 3, South 16 d