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Senate Bill S10551

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts certain property in the village of Lake Placid from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a church

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2025-S10551 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §64, ABC L

2025-S10551 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts certain property in the village of Lake Placid, town of North Elba, from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a church.

2025-S10551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10551
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 20, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEC  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
   opment and Small Business
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to an
   exemption for certain property in the village of Lake Placid 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-18) to read as
 follows:
   (E-18) 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 VILLAGE OF LAKE PLACID,
 TOWN OF NORTH ELBA, COUNTY OF ESSEX, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR 0.35 ACRE PARCEL  OF  LAND  SITUATE  IN  THE
 VILLAGE  OF  LAKE  PLACID, TOWN OF NORTH ELBA, COUNTY OF ESSEX, STATE OF
 NEW YORK, BEING PART OF LOT 258, TOWNSHIP 11, OLD MILITARY TRACT,  RICH-
 ARDS' SURVEY LYING WEST OF THE CENTER OF MAIN STREET, SO CALLED, AKA NYS
 ROUTE  86,  S.H. NO. 1511, AND SAID PARCEL BEING MORE PARTICULARLY BOUND
 AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE EAST BOUNDS OF MAIN STREET AT  THE  SOUTH-
 EAST  CORNER  OF  THE  PREMISES HEREIN DESCRIBED AND BEING THE NORTHEAST
 CORNER OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF LAKE PLACID, LOCATED NORTH 18° 08' 10"
 EAST, 129 FEET, MORE OR LESS, FROM THE BOUNDS OF HAYES STREET  FKA  PARK
 STREET;  THENCE NORTH 69° 59' 28" WEST, 161.59 FEET ALONG THE SOUTH LINE
 OF THE PARCEL TO A POINT AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER MARKED BY  A  5/8  INCH
 IRON  ROD WITH A PLASTIC CAP, AND SAID COURSE PASSING THROUGH A 3/4 INCH
 DRILL HOLE IN A STONE MASONRY RETAINING WALL AT A DISTANCE OF 0.30 FEET;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15970-01-6
              

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