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Assembly Bill A5387

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the state liquor authority to issue licenses to new premises for the sale of liquor where such premises is within two hundred feet of a place of worship, or where three or more such premises exist

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2025-A5387 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7003
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§64, 64-a, 64-b, 64-c & 64-d, ABC L

2025-A5387 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the state liquor authority to issue licenses to new premises for the sale of liquor where such premises is located within two hundred feet of a place of worship and such place of worship has given approval, or where three or more such premises exist in counties of a certain population.

2025-A5387 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5387
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   authorizing the liquor authority to issue licenses to new premises for
   the sale of liquor where such premises is within two hundred feet of a
   place  of  worship, or where three or more such premises already exist
   in counties of a certain population
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (f) of subdivision 7 of section 64
 of the alcoholic beverage control law, paragraphs (a) and (b) as amended
 by chapter 463 of the laws of 2009 and paragraph (f) as amended by chap-
 ter 185 of the laws of 2012, are amended to read as follows:
   (a) on the same street or avenue and within  two  hundred  feet  of  a
 building  occupied  exclusively  as a school, church, synagogue or other
 place of worship; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  THE  AUTHORITY  MAY  ISSUE  A
 RETAIL LICENSE FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION FOR A PREMISES THAT IS WITHIN
 TWO HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL, CHURCH,
 SYNAGOGUE  OR  OTHER  PLACE  OF WORSHIP IF THE OWNER OR ADMINISTRATOR OF
 SUCH SCHOOL, CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE OR OTHER PLACE OF  WORSHIP  AFFIRMATIVELY
 STATES SUPPORT FOR THE ISSUANCE OF SUCH A LICENSE; or
   (b) in a [city, town or village having a population of twenty thousand
 or  more]  COUNTY  HAVING  A  POPULATION BETWEEN ONE MILLION SIX HUNDRED
 THOUSAND AND ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND AS OF THE  TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY  CENSUS  AS CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 within five hundred feet of three or more existing premises licensed and
 operating pursuant to this section  and  sections  sixty-four-a,  sixty-
 four-b, sixty-four-c, and/or sixty-four-d of this article;
   (f)  Notwithstanding  the provisions of paragraph (b) of this subdivi-
 sion, IN A COUNTY HAVING A POPULATION BETWEEN ONE  MILLION  SIX  HUNDRED
 THOUSAND  AND  ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND AS OF THE TWO THOUSAND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08167-01-5
              

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