Drafting bar servers to help curb underage drinking
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  A bill that aims to curb underage drinking and drunken driving by encouraging more training of servers in bars and restaurants received final passage in the Legislature this week and is awaiting action by Gov. David Paterson. Â
  The legislation would allow bar and restaurant owners to get a reduction on their liquor liability insurance if they and their workers completed a course. All establishments would need at least one employee to complete the management training course in order to receive the insurance incentive. They would learn about civil and criminal liability for illegal sales of alcohol, how to identify an underage drinker, alcohol’s physical effects, and other topics.
  Assembly bill sponsor Amy Paulin, D-Scarsdale, Westchester County, said a recent study showed that alcohol was a factor for close to 30 percent of teens killed in car accidents in New York.
  “In order to prevent these tragic accidents, we must make sure that the peopel closest to the problem are equipped to recognize underage drinkers and stop serving them and any customer who has had too much to drink,†Paulin said in a statement.Â
  The insurance incentive and training courses “will go a long way towards getting establishments on board, and focused on soliving this problem,†New Rochelle Police Commissioner Patrick Carroll said in a statement.
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More useless pap with a large price- tag. Nothing but another self-promotional bucket of horse manure. How many nonsense bills have they proposed up there while the state slides toward bankruptcy and the earners look for brighter horizons elsewhere? “This is what a drunk looks like.” “This is what someone under 21 looks like.” “These are the physical effects of alcohol.” Films, charts, psychologists, PR people, lecturers, lobbyists who will represent yahoos who want to get in on the action, the yahoos themselves who, through the lobbyists, will bribe officials to choose their firm, an eventual sub-commissioner of restaurant alcohol education with a staff of 150, forty SUVs and state pensions for all. GET SOME DAMNED WORK DONE!