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

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                                   7683
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 29, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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:
 
   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  COUNTY  OF  ONTARIO,
 BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   ALL  THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE IN THE PHELPS GORHAM TRACT,
 TOWNSHIP 11, RANGE 1, VILLAGE OF  PHELPS,  TOWN  OF  PHELPS,  COUNTY  OF
 ONTARIO,  AND STATE OF NEW YORK, ALL OF WHICH IS SHOWN ON A MAP PREPARED
 BY DAVID M. CLARK, PLS ENTITLED "INSTRUMENT SURVEY OF LANDS OF  PATRICIA
 R.  QUIGLEY" LAST DATED NOVEMBER 4, 1995, JOB NO. 218.00, AND BEING MORE
 PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE APPARENT EASTERLY STREET  LINE  OF  CHURCH
 STREET  AT  THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LANDS OF HAROLD E. AND WILMA B. NEFF
 (LIBER 684, PAGE 884), SAID POINT BEING 177 FEET, MORE OR LESS, SOUTH OF
 THE NEW EXISTING SOUTHERLY CURB LINE OF MAIN STRET THENCE THE  FOLLOWING
 FIVE COURSES AND DISTANCES:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   1. THENCE, SOUTH 14-43-39 WEST ALONG THE APPARENT EASTERLY STREET LINE
 OF  CHURCH  STREET, A DISTANCE OF 23.78 FEET TO A POINT AT THE NORTHWEST
 CORNER OF LANDS OF JOHN F. RILEY (LIBER 951, PAGE 172);
   2.  THENCE,  SOUTH  74-38-00 EAST ALONG THE NORTHERLY LINE OF LANDS OF
 JOHN F. RILEY (LIBER 951, PAGE 172) A DISTANCE OF 101.45 FEET TO AN IRON
 PIN AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LANDS OF SAID JOHN F. RILEY;
   3. THENCE, NORTH 59-48-26- EAST ALONG THE WESTERLY LINE  OF  LANDS  OF
 STEPHEN  T.  CALLOWAY (LIBER 840, PAGE 384 A DISTANCE OF 2.48 FEET TO AN
 IRON PIN SET:
   4. THENCE, NORTH 38-12-53 EAST ALONG THE WESTERLY  LINE  OF  LANDS  OF
 SAID  STEPHEN  T. CALLOWAY AND THE WESTERLY LINE OF LANDS OF THE TOWN OF
 PHELPS (LIBER 858, PAGE 5) A DISTANCE OF 25.12 FEET TO AN IRON PINE  SET
 AT  THE  SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LANDS OF HAROLD E. AND WILMA B. NEFF (LIBER
 682, PAGE 914); AND
   5. THENCE, NORTH 75-10-57 WEST ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE  OF  LANDS  OF
 SAID  HAROLD E. AND WILMA B. NEFF (LIBER 682, P914) AND ALONG THE SOUTH-
 ERLY FACE OF THE BUILDING OF LANDS OF SAID HAROLD E. AND WILMA  B.  NEFF
 (L684, P884) A DISTANCE OF 113.21 FEET TO A POINT IN THE APPARENT STREET
 LINE  OF  CHURCH  STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE POINT AND PLACE OF BEGIN-
 NING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.