STATE OF NEW YORK
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8508
IN SENATE
February 7, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- 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 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e-16) to read as
3 follows:
4 (e-16) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdi-
5 vision, the authority may issue a retail license for on-premises
6 consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred
7 feet of a building occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of
8 worship, provided such premises constitute a premises for the sale of
9 food or beverages at retail for consumption on the premises located
10 wholly within the boundaries of the county of Saratoga, bounded and
11 described as follows:
12 All that certain tract, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and
13 being in the city of Saratoga Springs, county of Saratoga and state of
14 New York, bounded and described as follows:
15 Commencing at a point in the northerly line of Washington Street where
16 the division line between the land hereby described and the land now or
17 late of Peter V. Wiggins meets the said northerly line of Washington
18 Street and running thence westerly along the said northerly line of
19 Washington Street one hundred ten (110') feet more or less to the divi-
20 sion line between the land hereby described and the land now or late of
21 Edward R. Stevens thence northerly along the easterly line of the said
22 now or late of Edward R. Stevens one hundred seventy-one feet and six
23 inches more or less to the line of the land of the United States Hotel,
24 thence easterly along the line of land of the United States Hotel,
25 thence easterly along the line of the United States Hotel one hundred
26 twelve feet more or less and thence southerly along the westerly line of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 said land of late Peter V. Wiggins two hundred feet more or less to the
2 northerly line of Washington Street at the place of beginning.
3 Being the same premises described in an exclusive easement from the
4 Universal Baptist Church of Saratoga Springs, New York to Saratoga
5 Springs Universal Preservation Hall, dated January 26, 2004 and recorded
6 in the Saratoga County Clerk's Office on February 25, 2004 in Book 1674
7 of Deeds at Page 268.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
