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Article 11 - NY Alcoholic Beverage Control Law

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  S 160. Construction of chapter.  This chapter shall be so construed as
to assure that the policy of the state and the intent and purpose
thereof will be carried out.
  S 161. Invalidity; effect of.  If any part, provision or section of
this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances
shall be held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the
remainder thereof or the application of such part, provision or section
to any other person or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
  S 162. Laws repealed; effect of repeal; saving clause.  1. Chapter one
hundred eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-three, entitled
"An act relating to the manufacture, sale, control, distribution and
regulation of certain alcoholic beverages, constituting chapter three-b
of the consolidated laws, " and all acts amendatory thereof or
supplemental thereto are hereby repealed.
  2. The repeal of the acts specified in subdivision one hereof shall
not operate or be construed to shorten or terminate the term of any
license heretofore issued thereunder or the rights of any person holding
such a license; nor shall it be construed to abolish the state alcoholic
beverage control board or the several county alcoholic beverage control
boards or the New York city alcoholic beverage control board, as
presently constituted, and which were heretofore established and are now
operating pursuant to such acts nor to invalidate or affect any action
heretofore taken by either of such boards or their officers or
employees; nor to require the discharge or the re-appointment of any
employees of either of such boards.
  3. This chapter shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending
in any court.
  S 163. Time of taking effect.  This chapter shall take effect July
first, nineteen hundred thirty-four except that the state liquor
authority and the local alcoholic beverage control board may, prior to
July first, nineteen hundred thirty-four, receive and entertain such
applications for licenses or permits and take such other steps as may be
necessary or appropriate to permit this chapter to become effective and
operative on July first, nineteen hundred thirty-four.
  S 164. Saving clause on repeal of article three.  1. The repeal of
article three by the chapter of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-five
which added this section shall not operate or be construed to invalidate
or affect any action heretofore taken by the several county alcoholic
beverage control boards or the New York city alcoholic beverage control
board, as heretofore established by said article three, or by their
boards or officers or employees, nor to require the discharge or the
re-appointment of any of their employees.
  2. Such chapter of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-five shall not
affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court on or before
the effective date of this section.
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