NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7992
SPONSOR: Quart TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in
relation to licenses to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain
premises
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The bill creates an exception to the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, allowing a license to be issued to a
person using the permanent catering facilities of a church, synagogue or
other place of worship.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Subdivision 7 of section 64 of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law is amended by adding a new paragraph
(e-4).
JUSTIFICATION: While the Alcoholic Beverage Control law prohibits the
sale for on-premises consumption of alcohol at any location within 200
feet of a place of worship, this bill will allow the State Liquor
Authority to issue a license to a person using the permanent catering
facilities of a church, synagogue or other place of worship. Other
exceptions have been made for certain establishments and do not pose
problems for the place of worship.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7992
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 13, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. QUART, KELLNER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
licenses 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e-5) to read as
3 follows:
4 (e-5) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
5 sion, the authority may issue a retail license for on-premises consump-
6 tion for a premises which shall be within two hundred feet of a building
7 occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue, or other place of
8 worship, provided such premises constitutes 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 borough of Manhattan in the city and
11 county of New York, bounded and described as follows:
12 BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly
13 side of 63rd Street with the easterly side of Park (formerly Fourth)
14 Avenue, running thence easterly along said northerly side of 63rd Street
15 one hundred (100) feet; thence northerly and parallel with Park Avenue
16 one hundred (100) feet and five (5) inches; thence running westerly and
17 parallel with 63rd Street one hundred (100) feet to the easterly side of
18 Park Avenue; thence southerly along the said easterly side of Park
19 Avenue one hundred (100) feet and five (5) inches to the point or place
20 of beginning, the premises known as 583 Park Avenue.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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