Bill Text: NY A10201 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance of a church within the county of Washington, state of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - reported referred to rules [A10201 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10201-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10201

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Woerner) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in  relation  to  an
          exemption  for  certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales
          within a certain distance of a church

          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-16)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (e-16)  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 Washington, bounded and
    11  described as follows:
    12    ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND situate, lying and  being  in
    13  the  Village  of Hudson Falls, County of Washington and the State of New
    14  York, more particularly bounded and described as follows:
    15    BEGINNING at a point in the  westerly  line  of  Main  Street  at  the
    16  northeasterly  corner of the lands conveyed to C. Bruce Wetmore and Gary
    17  C. Wilson by deed dated August 12, 1988 and  recorded  in  Book  580  of
    18  deeds  at  page  289; thence running South 75 degrees, 21 minutes and 12
    19  seconds West to and along and beyond the face of  the  two  story  brick
    20  building  on  the  premises  described  herein  being also the northerly
    21  bounds of the lands of said Wetmore and Wilson, a distance of 77.00 feet
    22  to the northwesterly corner of said lands of Wetmore and Wilson;  thence
    23  running  North 14 degrees, 28 minutes and 43 seconds West, a distance of
    24  28.22 feet along the lands now or formerly of Erskine  Rogers,  Jr.,  to
    25  the  southerly  bounds  of  the  lands  of  Drake Brothers, Inc.; thence
    26  running North 75 degrees, 21 minutes and  47  seconds  East  along  said
    27  lands  to  and along and beyond the face of the two story brick building

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15521-01-4
        A. 10201                            2

     1  on the premises herein described,  a  distance  of  77.00  feet  to  the
     2  westerly bounds of said Main Street; thence running South 14 degrees, 28
     3  minutes  and  43 seconds East, a distance of 28.20 feet to the point and
     4  place of beginning.
     5    Bearings given in the above description refer to the magnetic meridian
     6  as of November, 1970.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.