Bill Text: NY S08508 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance of a church.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9049 [S08508 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08508-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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.
                                                                   LBD13882-01-3
        S. 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.