N.Y. ABC Law § 99-B — New York Code / Act ABC / Article 7 / Section 99-B
Miscellaneous permits
Status: in_force

§ 99-b. Miscellaneous permits. 1. The liquor authority is hereby\nauthorized to issue a permit to:\n  a. A sheriff, marshal, assignee for the benefit of creditors, trustee\nor receiver in bankruptcy, executor or administrator of an estate, to\nsell the stock of alcoholic beverages which came into his possession\npursuant to judicial process.\n  b. A steamship company or company operating aircraft, or its duly\nauthorized agent, to purchase from a manufacturer or wholesaler in this\nstate alcoholic beverages for ship's stores for consumption outside the\nterritorial jurisdiction of the state, and not for purposes of resale in\nthis state.\n  c. A person engaged in the manufacture of products which are unfit for\nbeverage use and classified by the United States treasury department, as\nexempt from special and commodity taxes to purchase liquor, wine or beer\nfrom licensed wholesalers and manufacturers for use only in the process\nof manufacture of such products.\n  d. A fire insurance company or fire salvage company, under the\nsupervision of the New York state department of financial services, to\nsell to licensees alcoholic beverages which came into its possession as\na result of a fire on licensed premises.\n  e. A hospital, which shall mean a place for overnight care of the\nsick, conducted or licensed by the state or a political subdivision\nthereof or subject to visitation and inspection by the state board of\nsocial welfare to purchase liquor, wine or beer for medicinal use only\nin the treatment of bona fide patients of such hospital.\n  f. A licensee who is liquidating or selling its business, or a former\nlicensee whose license has been surrendered, revoked, cancelled or has\nexpired, to sell its entire stock of alcoholic beverages to other\nlicensees, provided, however, that no such permit shall be issued to a\nlicensee or former licensee who is delinquent under the provisions of\nsection one hundred one-aa or section one hundred one-aaa of this\nchapter. A former licensee whose license has been surrendered, revoked,\ncancelled, or has expired, may not transfer its stock of alcoholic\nbeverages to any other person unless it obtains such a permit.\n  g. A warehouseman, railroad company, steamship company, or other\nperson who has acquired a lien pursuant to law for the storage or\ncarriage of alcoholic beverages, to sell such alcoholic beverages to a\nlicensee.\n  i. A bank or trust company incorporated under articles three, seven or\ntwelve of the banking law or a foreign banking corporation licensed by\nsuperintendent of financial services of this state or a banking\ncorporation organized under the laws of the United States and doing\nbusiness in this state, to sell warehouse receipts pertaining to\nalcoholic beverages which it has accepted as collateral security for a\nloan to a licensee and which it acquired through default in the payment\nof such loan.\n  j. A person duly licensed outside the state of New York to manufacture\nor sell alcoholic beverages at wholesale, or his duly authorized\nrepresentative, to negotiate and consummate contracts or agreements with\nlicensed wholesalers in this state for the establishment of operating\nagency relationships for the sale of its products in this state.\n  k. A person to purchase, receive or sell alcoholic beverages or\nreceipts, certificates, contracts or other documents pertaining to\nalcoholic beverages, in cases not expressly provided for by this\nchapter, when in the judgment of the liquor authority it would be\nappropriate and consistent with the purpose of this chapter.\n  l. (1) Licensed wineries and licensed farm wineries to sell New York\nstate labelled wine, by the bottle, at the state fair, at recognized\ncounty fairs and at farmers markets operated on a not-for-profit basis.\n  (2) The permit shall be valid for the length of the event, but not for\na period to exceed one year.\n  (3) No fee shall be charged for permits issued pursuant to this\nsubdivision.\n  m. An institution of higher education operating under authority\ngranted by the state education department, to deliver or cause to be\ndelivered alcoholic beverages to a person who is at least twenty-one\nyears of age enrolled in a single class or course of classes authorized\nby the institution of higher education and conducted by an instructor or\ninstructors engaged by the institution of higher education, provided\nthat such person's imbibing or tasting of such alcoholic beverages is a\nrequired part of the class or course of classes, and provided that such\nperson's imbibing or tasting of such alcoholic beverages is only for\ninstructional purposes. No alcoholic beverage shall be delivered, or\nshall be permitted to be delivered, to a person under twenty-one years\nof age during any class conducted under the authority of such permit,\nand the provisions of subdivision five of section sixty-five and\nparagraph (a) of subdivision two of section sixty-five-c of this chapter\nshall not apply to any delivery made during any class conducted under\nthe authority of such permit.\n  2. Each such permit and the exercise of the privilege granted thereby\nmay be subjected to such rules and conditions by the liquor authority as\nit deems necessary.\n  3. Each such permit shall be issued in such form as shall be\nprescribed by the liquor authority and shall be valid for one\ntransaction only, except that a permit issued pursuant to paragraph b,\nc, e, j, or m of subdivision one of this section may be issued either\nfor one transaction or for a calendar year. The liquor authority may, by\nrule, fix the quantity of alcoholic beverages to be involved in a single\ntransaction under a permit issued pursuant to paragraph k of subdivision\none of this section, but no single transaction so authorized shall\ninvolve more than twenty cases of alcoholic beverages. The fee for each\nsuch permit shall be fixed by the liquor authority, but shall not exceed\nninety dollars for a permit valid for one transaction only nor two\nhundred fifty-six dollars for a permit issued for a calendar year.\n