Title ABC, Alcoholic Beverage Control

§ 54-a. License to sell beer and wine products at retail for consumption off the premises. 1. Any person may apply to the appropriate board for a license to sell beer and wine products at retail not to be consumed upon the premises where sold. Such application shall be in writin…

§ 54-b. Beer tasting. Any person holding a retail license to sell beer under this chapter shall be permitted to conduct consumer tastings of beer upon such person's licensed premises. All such tastings shall be subject to the following limitations: (a) Tastings of beer shall be …

§ 55. License to sell beer at retail for consumption on the premises. 1. Any person may make an application to the appropriate board for a license to sell beer at retail to be consumed upon the premises. Such application shall be in writing and verified and shall contain such in…

§ 55-a. License to sell beer at retail, in certain counties, for consumption at baseball parks, race tracks and outdoor athletic fields and stadia where admission fees are charged, in operation for certain periods of the year. 1. Any person may make an application to the appropr…

§ 55-b. Manner of changing beer prices to wholesalers and retail licensees. 1. It is hereby declared as the policy of the state that the sale and distribution of beer shall be subject to certain restrictions, prohibitions and regulations which tend to maintain an orderly market …

§ 55-c. Agreements between brewers and beer wholesalers. 1. Purpose. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state, that the sale and delivery of beer by brewers to beer wholesalers shall be pursuant to a written agreement. That further, the regulation of business relatio…

§ 56. License fees. 1. The annual fee for a license to manufacture beer shall be: (a) four thousand dollars for a brewer's license, unless the annual production of the brewer is less than seventy-five thousand barrels per year, in which case the annual fee shall be three hundred…

§ 56-a. Filing fees and refunds. 1. In addition to the annual fees provided for in this chapter, there shall be paid to the authority with each initial application for a license filed pursuant to section thirty, thirty-one, fifty-one, fifty-one-a, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-e…

§ 57. License fees; when due and payable; fee for part of year. 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided pursuant to section fifty-seven-a, each license issued pursuant to this article other than the one specified in paragraph (b) of this subdivision shall be effective for a license …

§ 57-a. Change in duration of licenses. The liquor authority is authorized to change the periods during which the licenses authorized by sections fifty-one, fifty-one-a, fifty-three, fifty-three-a, fifty-four, fifty-four-a, fifty-five and fifty-five-a of this article shall be ef…

§ 58. Cider producers' or wholesalers' license. 1. Any person may apply to the liquor authority for a cider producers' or wholesalers' license as provided for in this subdivision. Such application shall be in writing and shall contain such information as the liquor authority sha…

§ 58-a. Sale of cider by wholesale beer licensees. A wholesale beer licensee, as defined under this chapter shall, upon the payment of an additional license fee of three hundred seventy-five dollars, be permitted to sell cider as defined under this chapter at wholesale from duly…

§ 58-b. Retail sale of cider by wholesale licensees. 1. Notwithstanding any other law upon payment to the liquor authority of an additional annual fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars, the liquor authority may in its discretion and upon such terms and conditions as it may pres…

§ 58-c. Farm cidery license. 1. Any person may apply to the authority for a farm cidery license as provided for in this section to produce cider within this state for sale. Such application shall be in writing and verified and shall contain such information as the authority shal…

§ 58-d. Custom cidermakers' center. 1. Any person may apply to the authority on or before December thirty-first, two thousand nineteen for a custom cidermakers' center license as provided for in this section to operate a custom cidermakers' center facility and provide individual…

§ 59. Authorization for sale of cider by retail licensees. Each retail licensee under this chapter shall have the right, by virtue of his license and without being required to pay any additional fee for the privilege, to sell at retail for consumption on or off the premises, as …

§ 59-a. Cider tasting. Any person holding a retail license under this chapter shall be permitted to conduct consumer tastings of cider upon such person's licensed premises. All such tastings shall be subject to the following limitations: (a) Tastings of cider shall be conducted …

§ 59-b. Direct interstate cider shipments. 1. Authorization. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, any holder of a license to manufacture cider in any other state who obtains an out-of-state direct shipper's license, as provided in this sectio…

§ 59-c. Direct intrastate cider shipments. Any person having applied for and received a manufacturing license under this chapter which includes the privilege of producing cider may ship no more than thirty-six cases (no more than nine liters per case) of cider produced by such m…

§ 60. Kinds of licenses. The following kinds of licenses may be issued for the manufacture and sale of liquor, alcohol and spirits, to wit: 1. Distiller's license, class A. 1-a. Distiller's license, class A-1. 2. Distiller's license, class B. 2-a. Distiller's license, class C. 2…

§ 61. Distiller's licenses. 1. A class A distiller's license shall authorize the holder thereof to operate a distillery for the manufacture of liquors by distillation or redistillation at the premises specifically designated in the license. Such a license shall also authorize th…

§ 61-a. Combined craft manufacturing license. 1. The authority may issue a combined craft manufacturer's license to a person for the purposes of articles four, four-a, five and six of this chapter, combining the privileges of two or more farm or micro manufacturing licenses for …

§ 61-b. Importer's license. An importer's license shall authorize the holder thereof to import alcoholic beverages into this state and sell such alcoholic beverages to licensed wholesalers authorized to sell such alcoholic beverages.

§ 61-c. Brand owner's license. Any person with a federal basic permit may apply to the liquor authority for a brand owner's license. Such license shall authorize the holder thereof to: 1. contract with a licensed manufacturer of alcoholic beverages in this state for the purposes…

§ 62. Wholesaler's liquor license. Any person may apply to the liquor authority for a license to sell liquor at wholesale. Such application shall be in writing and verified and shall contain such information as the liquor authority shall require. Such application shall be accomp…

§ 63. Seven day license to sell liquor at retail for consumption off the premises. 1. Any person may make an application to the appropriate board for a seven day license to sell liquor at retail not to be consumed upon the premises where sold. Such application shall be in such f…

§ 63-a. Liquor tasting. 1. (a) Any person licensed pursuant to section sixty-one or sixty-two of this article shall be permitted to conduct consumer tastings of liquor in establishments licensed under section sixty-three of this article to sell alcoholic beverages for off-premis…

§ 64. License to sell liquor at retail for consumption on the premises. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of section seventeen of this chapter, any person may make an application to the appropriate board for a license to sell liquor at retail to be consumed on…

§ 64-a. Special license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on the premises. 1. On or before September first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine, any license issued under section sixty-four of this article may be converted into a special on-premises license under this section upon…

§ 64-b. License to sell liquor on premises commonly known as a bottle club. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation operating a place for profit or pecuniary gain, with a capacity for the assemblage of twenty or more persons to permit a person or perso…

§ 64-c. License to manufacture and sell alcoholic beverages in a premises commonly known as a restaurant-brewer. 1. Any person may make an application to the state liquor authority for a license to operate a restaurant-brewer. 2. Such application shall be in such form and shall …

§ 64-d. License to sell liquor on premises commonly known as a cabaret. 1. Any person may make an application to the state liquor authority to operate a cabaret. 2. Such application shall be in such form and shall contain such information as shall be required by the liquor autho…

§ 64-e. License to sell liquor at retail as an off-premises catering establishment. 1. Any person may make an application to the authority for a license to sell liquor at a site remote from the licensed premises of an off-premises catering establishment as defined pursuant to pa…

§ 64-f. License to sell liquor on premises commonly known as a for-profit club. 1. Any person may make an application to the state liquor authority to operate a "for-profit club" which is operated solely for a recreational, social, patriotic, political, benevolent, communal work…

§ 65. Prohibited sales. No person shall sell, deliver or give away or cause or permit or procure to be sold, delivered or given away any alcoholic beverages to 1. Any person, actually or apparently, under the age of twenty-one years; 2. Any visibly intoxicated person; 3. Any hab…

§ 65-a. Procuring alcoholic beverages for persons under the age of twenty-one years. Any person who misrepresents the age of a person under the age of twenty-one years for the purpose of inducing the sale of any alcoholic beverage, as defined in the alcoholic beverage control la…

§ 65-b. Offense for one under age of twenty-one years to purchase or attempt to purchase an alcoholic beverage through fraudulent means. 1. As used in this section: (a) "A device capable of deciphering any electronically readable format" or "device" shall mean any commercial dev…

§ 65-c. Unlawful possession of an alcoholic beverage with the intent\nto consume by persons under the age of twenty-one years. 1. Except as\nhereinafter provided, no person under the age of twenty-one years shall\npossess any alcoholic beverage, as defined in this chapter, with …

§ 65-d. Posting of signs. 1. The authority shall prepare, have printed and distribute across the state to all persons with a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises or a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises a sign or po…

§ 65-e. Posting of signs relating to human trafficking. 1. The authority shall require any person with a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises who indicated, pursuant to paragraph (f) of subdivision one of section one hundred ten of this chapter, th…

§ 66. License fees. 1. The annual fee for a distiller's license, class A, shall be twelve thousand dollars. 1-a. The annual fee for a distiller's license, class A-1, shall be two hundred fifty dollars. 2. The annual fee for a distiller's license, class B, shall be eight thousand…

§ 67. License fees, duration of licenses; fee for part of year. Effective April first, nineteen hundred eighty-three, licenses issued pursuant to sections sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-four-a, sixty-four-b, sixty-four-c and sixty-four-e of this article sha…

§ 68. Direct interstate liquor shipments. 1. Authorization. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, any holder of a license to manufacture liquor in any other state that is equivalent in class and/or production capacity per year to those license…

§ 69. Direct intrastate liquor shipments. Any person having applied for and received a class A-1, class B-1, class C, or class D distiller license under section sixty-one of this article may ship no more than thirty-six cases (no more than nine liters per case) of liquor produce…

§ 75. Kinds of licenses. The following licenses may be issued for the manufacture and sale of wine, to wit: 1. Winery license; 1-a. Farm winery license; 1-b. Temporary winery or farm winery permit; 1-c. Micro-winery license; 2. Wholesaler's license; 3. Seven day license to sell …

§ 76. Winery license. 1. Any person may apply to the liquor authority for a winery license as provided for in this article. Such application shall be in writing and verified and shall contain such information as the liquor authority shall require. Such application shall be accom…

§ 76-a. Farm winery license. 1. Any person may apply to the liquor authority for a farm winery license as provided for in this article. Such application shall be in writing and verified and shall contain such information as the liquor authority shall require. Such application sh…

§ 76-c. Special winery license. 1. Any person may apply to the liquor authority for a license to operate a special winery on the premises of an existing winery licensee. Such application shall be in writing and verified and shall contain such information as the liquor authority …

§ 76-d. Special farm winery license. 1. Any person may apply to the liquor authority to operate a special farm winery on the premises of an existing farm winery licensee as provided for in this article. Such application shall be in writing and verified and shall contain such inf…

§ 76-e. Special provisions relating to wineries and farm wineries holding a distiller's license. 1. Any person who holds a winery license pursuant to section seventy-six of this article or a farm winery license pursuant to section seventy-six-a of this article and, in addition t…