Some Community Boards, such as Community Board 1, may require Applicants to enter into a Stipulation which Applicant's are required to sign, which refer to music, cover fees, and dancing and CB1 then requests that the SLA include the Stipulation in any Liquor License.
Updated March 2025.
Following are excerpts from the CB1 stipulation form. It seems many applicants sign rather have a liquor license delayed
10) I will not apply to the SLA for an alteration to the method of operation agreed to by this stipulation without first notifying
Community Board 1.
This provision conflicts with the new state law of 2024 which specifically allows notice to community boards to be simultaneous with submission of an application to the SLA. As one commentator has stated:
The SLA had required that new retail liquor license applicants provide 30 days’ notice to the local community board (in NYC) or municipality (outside of NYC) before submitting applications to the SLA. Pursuant to the amendments, applicants must still provide this notice, but they may submit their applications while the 30-day notice period is pending rather than having to wait at least 30 days. This may allow applicants to shave a few weeks off the application process, which may take 10 months or more for new applications to be processed by the SLA”
Clearly the stipulation violates this amendment.
Community Board 1 requests that the SLA add these stipulations to the license of the above-mentioned applicant. These
stipulations and board resolution shall supersede all other documents.
This is an attempt to bootstrap the authority of the Community Board. It appears that the City Council has not authorized Community Boards to enforce these stipulations by litigation: there appear to be no reported cases where a Community Board is a plaintiff. If an applicant wishes to modify its Method of Operation, these stipulations would seem to prevent the SLA from modifying the method of operation without the approval of the Community Board. Rather than attempt to create the impression of enforceability, the SLA should not accept stipulations, but rather require these conditions to be in the form a conditions by the Community Board rather than obligations which may not be changed without SLA approval.
