Bill Text: NY S00730 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts a certain property from the prohibition of on-site liquor sales within a certain distance from a church.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-12-18 - SIGNED CHAP.482 [S00730 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00730-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           730
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business
        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-9)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (e-9) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
     5  sion,  the authority may issue a retail license for on-premises consump-
     6  tion for a premises which shall be located within two hundred feet of  a
     7  building  occupied  as  a  church,  synagogue or other place of worship,
     8  provided such premises constitute a premises for the  sale  of  food  or
     9  beverages at retail for consumption on the premises located wholly with-
    10  in  the  boundaries of the county of Jefferson, bounded and described as
    11  follows:
    12    ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situated in the City of
    13  Watertown, County of Jefferson and  State  of  New  York,  described  as
    14  follows:
    15    BEGINNING  in the westerly margin of Massey Street where it intersects
    16  the southerly margin of Prospect Street;
    17    THENCE southerly along the margin of said Massey Street about  6  rods
    18  and 1/4 of a rod to land formerly owned by Ed. Bohl;
    19    THENCE  westerly at right angles along the northerly line of said Bohl
    20  lot to a point therein 34 feet from the southeasterly corner of a lot of
    21  land conveyed to Charles J. Gillingham by James A. Bell about 115 feet 7
    22  inches;
    23    THENCE northerly at right angles and parallel with the  easterly  line
    24  of said Gillingham's lot about 6 1/4 rods to Prospect Street;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06744-01-7
        S. 730                              2
     1    THENCE  easterly along the south margin of said Prospect Street to the
     2  place of beginning, and all the  lands  belonging  to  the  land  hereby
     3  conveyed and lying in front of the same Massey and Prospect Streets;
     4    BEING  the  same  premises conveyed to Vincent Cavallerio and Adrianna
     5  Cavallario by Joseph Scarabino, by deed dated May 27, 1977, and recorded
     6  in the Jefferson County Clerk's office on May 27, 1977 in Liber  881  of
     7  Deeds  at  page 418. Vincent Cavallario died in the City of Watertown on
     8  August 17, 1984;
     9    ALSO BEING the same premises conveyed to Adriana Cavallario and  Peter
    10  G.  Cavallario,  as  Trustees of the living Trust of Adriana Cavallario,
    11  under agreement dated  October  14,  1995,  by  Adriana  Cavallaria,  by
    12  warranty deed dated October 24, 1995 and recorded in the Jefferson Coun-
    13  ty Clerk's office on November 8, 1995 in Liber 1483 at Page 15;
    14    ALSO  BEING  the premises known as 133 North Massey Street, Watertown,
    15  New York.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.