STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8508 IN SENATE February 7, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- 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 an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from 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 Saratoga, bounded and 11 described as follows: 12 All that certain tract, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and 13 being in the city of Saratoga Springs, county of Saratoga and state of 14 New York, bounded and described as follows: 15 Commencing at a point in the northerly line of Washington Street where 16 the division line between the land hereby described and the land now or 17 late of Peter V. Wiggins meets the said northerly line of Washington 18 Street and running thence westerly along the said northerly line of 19 Washington Street one hundred ten (110') feet more or less to the divi- 20 sion line between the land hereby described and the land now or late of 21 Edward R. Stevens thence northerly along the easterly line of the said 22 now or late of Edward R. Stevens one hundred seventy-one feet and six 23 inches more or less to the line of the land of the United States Hotel, 24 thence easterly along the line of land of the United States Hotel, 25 thence easterly along the line of the United States Hotel one hundred 26 twelve feet more or less and thence southerly along the westerly line of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13882-01-3S. 8508 2 1 said land of late Peter V. Wiggins two hundred feet more or less to the 2 northerly line of Washington Street at the place of beginning. 3 Being the same premises described in an exclusive easement from the 4 Universal Baptist Church of Saratoga Springs, New York to Saratoga 5 Springs Universal Preservation Hall, dated January 26, 2004 and recorded 6 in the Saratoga County Clerk's Office on February 25, 2004 in Book 1674 7 of Deeds at Page 268. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.