A 4430: Makes certain liquor license fees payable in installments; reduces the fee for certain types of licenses.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4430 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ 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: 1 Section 1. Section 67 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as 2 amended by chapter 523 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 § 67. License fees, duration of licenses; fee for part of year. 5 [Effective April first, nineteen hundred eighty-three, licenses] 1. 6 Licenses issued pursuant to sections sixty-one, sixty-two[,] and sixty- 7 three[, sixty-four, sixty-four-a, sixty-four-b, sixty-four-c and sixty- 8 four-e] of this article shall be effective for three years at three 9 times that annual fee, except that, in implementing the purposes of this 10 [section] subdivision, the liquor authority shall schedule the commence- 11 ment dates, duration and expiration dates thereof to provide for an 12 equal cycle of license renewals issued under each such section through 13 the course of the fiscal year. [Effective December first, nineteen 14 hundred ninety-eight, licenses] 15 2. Licenses issued pursuant to sections sixty-four, sixty-four-a 16 [and], sixty-four-b, sixty-four-c, sixty-four-d and sixty-four-e of this 17 article shall be effective for two years at two times that annual fee 18 established in such sections, except that, in implementing the purposes 19 of this [section] subdivision, the liquor authority shall schedule the 20 commencement dates, duration and expiration dates thereof to provide for 21 an equal cycle of license renewals issued under each such section 22 through the course of the fiscal year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, 23 [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. LBD07997-01-5 
 A. 4430 2 1 concluding on July thirty-first, two thousand two,] a licensee issued a 2 license pursuant to section sixty-four, sixty-four-a [or], sixty-four-b, 3 sixty-four-c, sixty-four-d or sixty-four-e of this article may elect to 4 remit the fee for such license in equal annual installments. Such 5 installments shall be due on dates established by the liquor authority 6 and the failure of a licensee to have remitted such annual installments 7 after a due date shall be a violation of this chapter. 8 2-a. For all renewals of licenses issued pursuant to this section, the 9 fee shall be discounted by fifty percent. 10 3. For licenses issued for less than the three-year licensing period, 11 the license fee shall be levied on a pro-rated basis. The entire license 12 fee shall be due and payable at the time of application. 13 4. The liquor authority may make such rules as shall be appropriate to 14 carry out the purpose of this section. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and apply to licenses 16 issued or renewed on or after such date; provided, however, that subdi- 17 vision 2-a of section 67 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as added 18 by section one of this act, shall expire and be deemed repealed December 19 31, 2025.