63-A - Liquor tasting. - New York Statutes

§ 63-a. Liquor tasting. 1. Any person licensed pursuant to section sixty-one or sixty-two of this article may conduct consumer tastings of liquor in establishments licensed under section sixty-three of this article to sell alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. 2. All consumer tastings of liquor shall be conducted subject to the following limitations: (a) tastings of liquor shall be conducted by an official agent of one or more persons licensed pursuant to section sixty-one or sixty-two of this article. Such agent shall be physically present upon the premises at all times during the conducting of the consumer tasting of liquor. (b) no such person or persons licensed pursuant to section sixty-one or sixty-two of this article, and no official agent thereof, may provide, directly or indirectly: (i) more than a total of three samples of liquor for tasting to a person in one calendar day; or (ii) a sample of liquor for tasting equal to more than one-quarter fluid ounce. (c) any liability stemming from a right of action resulting from a consumer tasting of liquor authorized by this section and in accordance with the provisions of sections 11-100 and 11-101 of the general obligations law, shall accrue to the persons licensed pursuant to section sixty-one or sixty-two of this article, who conducted such tasting. 3. The state liquor authority shall promulgate rules and regulations regarding liquor tastings as provided for in this section.