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Senate Bill S10616

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school

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2025-S10616 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §64, ABC L

2025-S10616 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school.

2025-S10616 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10616
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 1, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GONZALEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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 of a school
 
   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 RESTAURANT LICENSES FOR A PREMISES  WHICH
 SHALL BE WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED EXCLUSIVELY AS A
 SCHOOL,  CHURCH,  SYNAGOGUE,  OR  OTHER  PLACE OF WORSHIP, PROVIDED SUCH
 PREMISES IS BEING CONDUCTED AS A RESTAURANT LOCATED  WHOLLY  WITHIN  THE
 BOUNDARIES  OF THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, CITY OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF NEW
 YORK, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   BEGINNING AT THE CORNER FORMED BY THE INTERSECTION  OF  THE  SOUTHERLY
 SIDE  OF  16TH  STREET  WITH  THE WESTERLY SIDE OF IRVING PLACE: RUNNING
 THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE SOUTHERLY SIDE OF 16TH STREET 100 FEET; THENCE
 SOUTHERLY PARALLEL WITH IRVING PLACE 103 FEET 3  INCHES  TO  THE  CENTER
 LINE OF THE BLOCK; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF THE BLOCK 20
 FEET;  THENCE  SOUTHERLY PARALLEL WITH THE WESTERLY SIDE OF IRVING PLACE
 40 FEET 9 INCHES; THENCE EASTERLY PARALLEL WITH THE  SOUTHERLY  SIDE  OF
 16TH  STREET  AND  PART  OF  THE WAY THROUGH A PARTY WALL 80 FEET TO THE
 WESTERLY SIDE OF IRVING PLACE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG THE WESTERLY  SIDE
 OF IRVING PLACE, 144 FEET TO THE POINT OR PLACE OF BEGINNING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15993-01-6

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