Exempts certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a church, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   7412
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 25, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Economic Development
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  64 of the alcoholic beverage
 control law is amended by adding a  new  paragraph  (e-17)  to  read  as
 follows:
   (E-17)  NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDI-
 VISION, THE  AUTHORITY  MAY  ISSUE  A  RETAIL  LICENSE  FOR  ON-PREMISES
 CONSUMPTION  FOR  A  PREMISES  WHICH SHALL BE LOCATED WITHIN TWO HUNDRED
 FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL,  CHURCH,  SYNAGOGUE
 OR OTHER PLACE OF WORSHIP, PROVIDED SUCH PREMISES CONSTITUTES A PREMISES
 FOR THE SALE OF FOOD OR BEVERAGES AT RETAIL FOR CONSUMPTION ON THE PREM-
 ISES  LOCATED  WHOLLY  WITHIN  THE  BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER,
 COUNTY OF MONROE, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND IN THE CITY OF ROCHESTER, MONROE  COUNTY,
 NEW  YORK, KNOWN AS LOT #7 OF THE WILLIAN HORCHELER SUBDIVISION, OF LOTS
 31 AND 32 OF THE MUNGER TRACT, SITUATED ON  THE  SOUTH  WEST  CORNER  OF
 SOUTH AVENUE AND GREGORY STREET, AS THE SAME IS LAID DOWN ON A MAP THER-
 EOF FILED IN MONROE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE IN LIBER 26 OF MAPS, PAGE 34.
   SAID LOT #7 BEING 77 FEET ON THE NORTH SIDE AND 43.25 FEET ON THE WEST
 END,  76.99  FEET  ON  THE SOUTH SIDE AND 45.28 FEET ON THE EAST END, AS
 MEASURED ALONG THE STREET LINE OF SOUTH AVENUE AS WILL MORE FULLY APPEAR
 BY SAID MAP.
   ALSO ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST OF THE PARTY OF THE FIRST  PART
 IN  AND TO A CERTAIN EASEMENT GRANTED TO ONE WILLIAM HORSCHELER BY HENRY
 KROEGR AND ANNA C. KROEGER, HIS WITH  BY  INSTRUMENT  DATED  AUGUST  27,
 1926,  ACKNOWLEDGED  THE  SAME DAY AND RECORDED IN MONROE COUNTY CLERK'S
 OFFICE AUGUST 30, 1926, IN LIBER 1379 OF DEEDS, PAGE 210.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11021-01-5