Bill Text: NY S09282 | 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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-08-28 - SIGNED CHAP.283 [S09282 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09282-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9282

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  STEC  --  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 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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 9282                             2

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