Assembly Bill A6758

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Increases the required distance between a liquor store and a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A6758 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §105, ABC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10775
2013-2014: A1516
2015-2016: A4363
2017-2018: A6024

2019-A6758 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-A6758 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6758
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 105 of the  alco-
 holic  beverage  control  law,  as amended by chapter 406 of the laws of
 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) No retail license to sell  liquor  and/or  wine  for  off-premises
 consumption  shall be granted for any premises which shall be located on
 the same street or avenue, and within [two]  EIGHT  hundred  feet  of  a
 building  occupied  exclusively  as a school, church, synagogue or other
 place of worship; the measurements to be taken in a straight  line  from
 the center of the nearest entrance to the building used for such school,
 church, synagogue or other place of worship to the center of the nearest
 entrance  of  the  premises  to  be  licensed;  except, however, that no
 license shall be denied to any premises at which a  license  under  this
 chapter has been in existence continuously from a date prior to the date
 when a building on the same street or avenue and within two hundred feet
 of  said  premises  has  been  occupied exclusively as a school, church,
 synagogue or other place of worship.
   § 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

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