A deal pending with the State Liquor Authority would impose penalties including a $15,000 fine on Bootleggers on Broadway in Troy, which was found during a December raid to have 175 underage patrons, but the bar would be allowed to reopen.

The plea agreement, worked out between SLA staff and Bootleggers’ attorney, James. D. Linnan of Albany, is contingent on being accepted by the agency board. It will vote on the matter at its next meeting, scheduled for Feb. 16, according to an agency spokesman.

Bootleggers has agreed to plead no contest to charges of 53 sales to minors, including 14 to people age 18 or younger, and one count of failure to keep books and records on the premises. In exchange it agrees to pay the $15,000 fine, discontinue its college night and similar promotions, use scanning devices for IDs and other conditions. A total of 93 patrons were cited for having fake IDs or presenting an ID that was not their own during the Dec. 3 raid. The plea agreement includes a 60-day suspension of Bootleggers’ liquor license, but with credit for the time since the SLA board voted to suspend the license on an emergency basis on Dec. 9, the bar would be allowed to reopen as soon as it satisfied the other plea conditions.

Noting that the matter is still pending, Linnan declined to comment on the matter in detail, saying, “I am hopeful that the board will accept this offer.”

SLA spokesman William Crowley tells me the board approves approximately 90 percent of the deals it is presented but on occasion makes a counter-offer of a different resolution.

Bootleggers, located at 200 Broadway in downtown Troy, served food but not alcoholic beverages from its license suspension on Dec. 9 through the end of the year. It has since been closed, according to its Facebook page.