Bill Text: NY A07131 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts certain property in Erie county from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a church.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - signed chap.280 [A07131 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07131-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7131
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 10, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law,  in  relation  to  a
          license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of  section  64  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
     2  control  law  is  amended  by  adding  a new paragraph (e-11) to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (e-11) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this  subdi-
     5  vision,  the  authority  may  issue  a  retail  license  for on-premises
     6  consumption for a premises which shall be  located  within  two  hundred
     7  feet  of  a  building  occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of
     8  worship, provided such premises constitute a premises for  the  sale  of
     9  food  or  beverages  at  retail  for consumption on the premises located
    10  wholly within  the  boundaries  of  the  county  of  Erie,  bounded  and
    11  described as follows:
    12    ALL  THAT  TRACT  OR  PARCEL  OF LAND, situate in the City of Buffalo,
    13  County of Erie and State of New  York,  and  bounded  and  described  as
    14  follows:  being  part  of  Lot  number seventy-one (71), Township eleven
    15  (11), Range eight (8) of the Holland Land  Company's  survey  and  in  a
    16  subdivision  of  part  of said lots 71 and 72, made for Main Street Land
    17  and Improvement Co., by C.F.  Witmer, surveyor, a map of which  subdivi-
    18  sion  is  on  file  in  Erie County Clerk's Office under Cover 292. This
    19  premises herby conveyed being designated as subdivision lot No.  thirty-
    20  nine (39) in Block "C" and bounded and described as follows:
    21    BEGINNING  at  a  point in the westerly line of Main Street thirty-six
    22  and one-half (36-1/2) feet northerly  from  its  intersection  with  the
    23  northerly  line of Heath Street (formerly Morton Street). Running thence
    24  northerly along  said  line  of  Main  Street  thirty-six  and  one-half
    25  (36-1/2)  feet;  thence  westerly at right angles with said line of Main
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11091-01-9
        A. 7131                             2
     1  Street to a sixteen (16) foot alley; thence southerly along the easterly
     2  line of said alley to a point where a line drawn at  right  angles  with
     3  said line of Main Street would intersect said line of Main Street at the
     4  place  of beginning and thence easterly at right angles with Main Street
     5  to the said line of Main Street at the place of beginning.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.