Bill Text: NY A01516 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the required distance between a premises selling liquor and/or wine at retail for consumption off the premises and a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship from 200 to 800 feet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to economic development [A01516 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01516-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1516
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Economic Development
       AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation  to  the
         required  distance  between  a  premises selling liquor and/or wine at
         retail for consumption off the premises and a  school,  church,  syna-
         gogue or other place of worship
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 105 of the  alco-
    2  holic  beverage  control  law,  as amended by chapter 406 of the laws of
    3  2007, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a) No retail license to sell  liquor  and/or  wine  for  off-premises
    5  consumption  shall be granted for any premises which shall be located on
    6  the same street or avenue, and within [two]  EIGHT  hundred  feet  of  a
    7  building  occupied  exclusively  as a school, church, synagogue or other
    8  place of worship; the measurements to be taken in a straight  line  from
    9  the center of the nearest entrance to the building used for such school,
   10  church, synagogue or other place of worship to the center of the nearest
   11  entrance  of  the  premises  to  be  licensed;  except, however, that no
   12  license shall be denied to any premises at which a  license  under  this
   13  chapter has been in existence continuously from a date prior to the date
   14  when a building on the same street or avenue and within two hundred feet
   15  of  said  premises  has  been  occupied exclusively as a school, church,
   16  synagogue or other place of worship.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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