Senate Bill S339

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits the granting of off-premises consumption liquor licenses within 350 feet of a school

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S339 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง105, ABC L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S2291

2009-S339 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends the zone around a school, church, synagogue or place of worship, in which no premises may be granted a retail license to sell liquor and/or wine for off-premises consumption, from two hundred feet to three hundred fifty feet on the same street.

2009-S339 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S339 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   339

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
  licenses to sell liquor for off-premises consumption near schools

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 105 of the  alco-
holic  beverage  control  law,  as amended by chapter 406 of the laws of
2007, is amended to read as follows:
  (a) No retail license to sell  liquor  and/or  wine  for  off-premises
consumption  shall be granted for any premises which shall be located on
the same street or avenue, and within [two] THREE hundred FIFTY feet  of
a  building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other
place of worship; the measurements to be taken in a straight  line  from
the center of the nearest entrance to the building used for such school,
church, synagogue or other place of worship to the center of the nearest
entrance  of  the  premises  to  be  licensed;  except, however, that no
license shall be denied to any premises at which a  license  under  this
chapter has been in existence continuously from a date prior to the date
when  a  building  on  the  same street or avenue and within [two] THREE
hundred FIFTY feet of said premises has been occupied exclusively  as  a
school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to those
licenses issued after such date.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03811-01-9

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