Bill Text: NY A06758 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the required distance between a premises selling liquor and/or wine at retail for consumption off the premises and a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship from 200 to 800 feet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06758 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06758-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6758 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 19, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the required distance between a premises selling liquor and/or wine at retail for consumption off the premises and a school, church, syna- gogue or other place of worship The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 105 of the alco- 2 holic beverage control law, as amended by chapter 406 of the laws of 3 2007, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) No retail license to sell liquor and/or wine for off-premises 5 consumption shall be granted for any premises which shall be located on 6 the same street or avenue, and within [two] eight hundred feet of a 7 building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other 8 place of worship; the measurements to be taken in a straight line from 9 the center of the nearest entrance to the building used for such school, 10 church, synagogue or other place of worship to the center of the nearest 11 entrance of the premises to be licensed; except, however, that no 12 license shall be denied to any premises at which a license under this 13 chapter has been in existence continuously from a date prior to the date 14 when a building on the same street or avenue and within two hundred feet 15 of said premises has been occupied exclusively as a school, church, 16 synagogue or other place of worship. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07737-01-9