Assembly Bill A8199

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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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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2025-A8199 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7683
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §64, ABC L

2025-A8199 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a church for a certain premises located in the county of Ontario.

2025-A8199 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8199
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- 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  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.
                                                            LBD11708-01-5
 A. 8199                             2
 
              

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