Assembly Bill A8418

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

  • 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-A8418 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8314
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §64, ABC L

2025-A8418 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows the state liquor authority to issue a retail license for on-premises consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred feet of a building occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of worship.

2025-A8418 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8418
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law,  in  relation  to  a
   license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises
 
   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 AS A CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE OR OTHER PLACE OF
 WORSHIP, PROVIDED SUCH PREMISES CONSTITUTE A PREMISES FOR  THE  SALE  OF
 FOOD  OR  BEVERAGES  AT  RETAIL  FOR CONSUMPTION ON THE PREMISES LOCATED
 WHOLLY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF  THE  BOROUGH  OF  BROOKLYN,  COUNTY  OF
 KINGS, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND
 IMPROVEMENTS  THEREON  ERECT LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN,
 COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK, BOUNDED  AND  DESCRIBED  AS
 FOLLOWS:
   BEGINNING  AT  A POINT ON THE WESTERLY SIDE OF FLATBUSH AVENUE DISTANT
 AN ONE HUNDRED (100) FEET NORTHERLY FROM THE CORNER FORMED BY THE INTER-
 SECTION OF THE NORTHERLY SIDE OF AVENUE R  WITH  THE  WESTERLY  SIDE  OF
 FLATBUSH AVENU;
   RUNNING  THENCE  WESTERLY  PARALLEL  WITH  AVENUE R, ONE HUNDRED (100)
 FEET;
   THENCE NORTHERLY PARALLEL WITH  FLATBUSH  AVENUE,  TWENTY-SIX  FEET  8
 INCHES (26'8") TO
   THENCE  SOUTHERLY  ALONG THE WESTERLY SIDE OF FLATBUSH AVENUE, TWENTY-
 SIX FEET EIGHT INCHES (26'8") TO THE POINT OR PLACE OF BEGINNING
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13121-01-5

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