Bill Text: NY S06860 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on-premises, notwithstanding certain restrictions regarding proximity to a school, church, synagogue, or other place of worship, for certain property located in the county of Erie.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [S06860 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06860-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6860

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RYAN  --  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-15)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (e-15)  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  school,  church,  synagogue  or  other
     8  place  of  worship, provided such premises constitute a premises for the
     9  sale of food or beverages at retail  for  consumption  on  the  premises
    10  located  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 Village of  Williams-
    13  ville, Town of Amherst, County of Erie and State of New York, being part
    14  of Lot No. 1, Township 12, Range 4 of the Holland Land Company's Survey,
    15  bounded and described as follows:
    16    BEGINNING at the intersection of the northerly line of Main Street (99
    17  feet  wide)  with  the  westerly  line  of  Grove Street (20 feet wide);
    18  running thence northerly along the westerly  line  of  Grove  Street,  a
    19  distance  of  111.52  feet to a point; thence westerly parallel with the
    20  northerly line of Main Street a distance  of  51.50  feet  to  a  point;
    21  thence southerly parallel with the westerly line of Grove, a distance of
    22  59.13  feet  to  the  northwest  corner  of lands conveyed to Michael A.
    23  Laurie by deed recorded in the Erie County Clerk's Office in Liber 10918
    24  of Deeds at page 218; thence easterly along the northerly line of  lands

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11097-01-3
        S. 6860                             2

     1  so conveyed to Laurie by deed aforesaid, a distance of 21.29 feet to the
     2  northeast  corner  thereof;  thence southerly along the easterly line of
     3  lands so conveyed to Laurie by deed aforesaid, distance of 52.19 feet to
     4  the southeast corner thereof and the northerly line of Main Street, said
     5  southeast  corner  of  Laurie being a distance of 29.75 feet westerly of
     6  the point of beginning; thence easterly along the northerly line of Main
     7  Street, a distance of 29.75 feet to the point of beginning.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.