Face-Lifts & Corporate Coups
If a bar owner wants to physically expand into the vacant retail shop next door, they must submit this application to the SLA.
What is an Alteration Application?
Standard state law closing hours prohibit alcohol sales on weekdays between 4:00 AM and this morning hour.
What is 8:00 AM?
Applicants for on-premises licenses must notify their local municipality or Community Board at least this many days before filing with the SLA.
What is 30 days?
The three tiers in New York's alcoholic beverage industry are Manufacturers, Wholesalers, and these sellers.
Who are Retailers?
The interactive web tool on sla.ny.gov that helps applicants determine their license type and fee schedule is called this.
What is the Application Wizard?
If a licensed LLC drops one partner and brings in a new investor, they must file this specific application.
What is a Corporate Change Application?
To extend alcohol sales until 8:00 AM on New Year's Eve, on-premises licensees must apply for this temporary authorization.
What is an All-Night Permit?
Proof of service for the 30-day notice must be submitted to the SLA. Name one acceptable proof of delivery method if sent by mail.
What is Certified Mail with Return Receipt Requested (or Registered Mail)?
Tied-House laws prevent manufacturers and wholesalers from having direct or indirect financial interest in this type of business.
What is a Retail business (bar, restaurant, liquor store)?
Retail license fees vary based on the beverage type served and this geographic location factor.
What is the County in which the business operates?
A physical alteration that reduces customer visibility into the premises or fundamentally changes the character of the business is classified as this level of alteration.
What is a Substantial Alteration?
Changing from background acoustic music to a live DJ and security bouncers requires SLA approval via this application process.
What is a Change in Method of Operation Application?
True or Brew: If an applicant changes their corporate entity name after sending the 30-day notice, they need to re-notify the Community Board.
What is True?
Wholesalers must sell their products to retailers according to prices published in this public monthly SLA filing.
What is the Price Schedule (or Price Posting)?
To verify an applicant's background, SLA requires key principals to undergo this biometric identification process.
What is Fingerprinting?
True or Brew: You can execute a corporate change and let the new owner run the bar while the SLA application is pending.
What is False? (Changes cannot be implemented until SLA grants approval; doing so constitutes illegal availment).
Under ABC Law, on New Year's Eve, an All-Night Permit CANNOT be issued if January 1 falls on this specific day of the week.
What is Sunday?
The 30-day notice expires if the actual SLA application is not submitted within this timeframe after the notice period ends.
What is 12 months (1 year)?
Under ABC Law ยง 101-aa, if a retail licensee fails to pay a wholesaler within statutory credit terms, they are placed on this restricted purchasing status.
What is the C.O.D. (Cash On Delivery) / Delinquent List?
When an application is incomplete or missing key attachments, the examiner issues this official notification to the applicant requesting missing items.
What is a Deficiency Letter?
If an owner closes their establishment for more than two weeks due to renovations, they must surrender their license certificate to the SLA zone office for this administrative status.
What is Safekeeping?
Enforceable agreements with a local community board regarding closing hours or types of music are known as these.
What are Stipulations?
In NYC, if a Community Board requests a 30-day extension to review a complex 500 Foot application, the SLA licensing examiner will hold the application if the applicant executes this formal agreement.
What is a Waiver / Extension Agreement signed by the applicant?
The statutory exception that allows micro-breweries or farm-breweries to operate an on-premises restaurant on their manufacturing property without violating Tied-House rules.
What is the Farm Craft Manufacturer On-Premises Retail Exemption?
Under SLA fee schedules, what happens to the license fee if an application is formally disapproved by the Authority?
What is the base license fee is refunded, but the processing/filing fee is retained by the SLA?