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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10551
IN SENATE
May 20, 2026
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e-18) to read as
3 follows:
4 (e-18) 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 exclusively as a school, church, synagogue
8 or other place of worship, provided such premises constitutes a premises
9 for the sale of food or beverages at retail for consumption on the prem-
10 ises located wholly within the boundaries of the village of Lake Placid,
11 town of North Elba, county of Essex, bounded and described as follows:
12 ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR 0.35 ACRE PARCEL OF LAND situate in the
13 Village of Lake Placid, Town of North Elba, County of Essex, State of
14 New York, being part of Lot 258, Township 11, Old Military Tract, Rich-
15 ards' Survey lying west of the center of Main Street, so called, aka NYS
16 Route 86, S.H. No. 1511, and said parcel being more particularly bound
17 and described as follows:
18 BEGINNING at a point in the east bounds of Main Street at the south-
19 east corner of the premises herein described and being the northeast
20 corner of the Episcopal Church of Lake Placid, located North 18° 08' 10"
21 East, 129 feet, more or less, from the bounds of Hayes Street fka Park
22 Street; thence North 69° 59' 28" West, 161.59 feet along the south line
23 of the parcel to a point at the southwest corner marked by a 5/8 inch
24 iron rod with a plastic cap, and said course passing through a 3/4 inch
25 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.
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1 Thence, North 18° 27' 00" East, 90.24 feet along the west line of the
2 premises marked by a decorative wire fence to a point at the northwest
3 corner and marked by a 5/8 inch iron rod, and said point being in the
4 south line of a twenty (20') foot wide right-of-way in common with
5 others running east/west between Elm Street fka Woodland Terrace and
6 Main Street, and known as Margaret Place;
7 Thence, South 72° 17' 47" East, 161.02 feet along the south line of
8 said right-of-way, Margaret Place, to a point in the west bounds of Main
9 Street, and said point passing through a 1 inch iron pipe line marker at
10 a distance of 2.01 feet, a 5/8 inch iron rod marker at a distance of
11 98.66 feet, and a masonry nail line marker in the center of concrete
12 capped retaining wall at a distance of 153.61 feet;
13 Thence, South 18° 08' 10" West, 96.73 feet along the west bounds of
14 Main Street to the Point-of-Beginning and encompassing therein 0.35
15 acres, more or less.
16 TOGETHER WITH all right, title and interest in and to the center of
17 Main Street as the north and south lines are extended easterly thereto.
18 TOGETHER WITH a twenty (20') foot wide right-of-way over Margaret
19 Place, so called, from Main Street to Elm Street for the purposes of
20 ingress and egress and the connection to public utilities located there-
21 in.
22 TOGETHER WITH AND SUBJECT TO the rights of the public in and to lands
23 within any public street, any and all easements, restrictions and
24 right(s) of way of record, as the same may affect said premises.
25 SAID PREMISES also being known as and by the street address 2442 Main
26 Street, Lake Placid, New York.
27 BEING THE SAME PREMISES conveyed to CJDLP LLC from Kane Realty Manage-
28 ment LLC by Deed dated June 30, 2025 and recorded in the Essex County
29 Clerk's Office on August 14, 2025 in Book 2210 of Deeds at Page 272.
30 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
