Provides an exemption for certain property, known as Nettie's Restaurant, and located at 220-03 Hempstead Avenue in Queens Village, from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a place of worship.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7275
SPONSOR: Vanel TITLE OF BILL:
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 place of worship
PURPOSE:
This bill will allow Nettie's Restaurant in Queens, NY to sell alcoholic
beverages
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Adds paragraph e-15 to the alcoholic beverage control law to grant a
liquor licenses to Nettie's Restaurant in Queens, NY, which is currently
within 200 ft. of a place of worship, thus barring it from alcohol sales
per NYS alcoholic beverage control law
JUSTIFICATION:
Nettie's Restaurant has been going strong for a number of years absent
the sale of alcoholic beverages. This bill will allow them to sell alco-
hol. The church that is within 200 feet of the establishment has submit-
ted a letter to the State Liquor Authority stating they would be grate-
ful if the state granted such license to Nettie's. In light of their
statement and the continued good nature of the Nettie's business in the
community, they require a legislative bill to authorize liquor sales.
This bill will enable them to do that.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This law will take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7275
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development
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 place of worship
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-15) to read as
3 follows:
4 (e-15) 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 within two hundred feet of a
7 building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other
8 place of worship, provided such premises constitutes a premises for the
9 sale of food or beverages at retail for consumption on the premises
10 located wholly within the boundaries of the Borough of Queens, county of
11 Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows:
12 AS TO LOT 3
13 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and
14 improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough
15 and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described
16 as follows:
17 BEGINNING at a point on the Northerly side of Hempstead Avenue, 100
18 feet wide, distant 40.01 feet Easterly from the corner formed by the
19 intersection of the Northerly side of Hempstead Avenue and the Easterly
20 side of 220th Street;
21 RUNNING THENCE Northerly parallel with 220th Street and part of the
22 distance through a party wall, 100.28 feet;
23 THENCE Easterly at right angles to the last mentioned course, 19.58
24 feet;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 THENCE Southerly parallel with 220th Street and part of the distance
2 through a party wall 100.68 feet to the Northerly side of Hempstead
3 Avenue;
4 THENCE Westerly along the Northerly side of Hempstead Avenue, 19.58
5 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING.
6 Being and intended to be the same premises described in a deed from
7 Leroy Brown and Vernetta Brown to Dannie Lomas dated November 30, 2007
8 and recorded on December 5, 2007 in the City Registers Queens County
9 City Register File Number 2007000600283.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
