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                                   10201
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2024
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 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Woerner) --
   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 of a church
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  64 of the alcoholic beverage
 control law is amended by adding a  new  paragraph  (e-16)  to  read  as
 follows:
   (E-16)  NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDI-
 VISION, THE  AUTHORITY  MAY  ISSUE  A  RETAIL  LICENSE  FOR  ON-PREMISES
 CONSUMPTION  FOR  A  PREMISES  WHICH SHALL BE LOCATED WITHIN TWO HUNDRED
 FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED AS A CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE  OR  OTHER  PLACE  OF
 WORSHIP,  PROVIDED  SUCH  PREMISES CONSTITUTE A PREMISES FOR THE SALE OF
 FOOD OR BEVERAGES AT RETAIL FOR  CONSUMPTION  ON  THE  PREMISES  LOCATED
 WHOLLY  WITHIN  THE  BOUNDARIES OF THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, BOUNDED AND
 DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND  BEING  IN
 THE  VILLAGE  OF HUDSON FALLS, COUNTY OF WASHINGTON AND THE STATE OF NEW
 YORK, MORE PARTICULARLY BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
   BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE  WESTERLY  LINE  OF  MAIN  STREET  AT  THE
 NORTHEASTERLY  CORNER OF THE LANDS CONVEYED TO C. BRUCE WETMORE AND GARY
 C. WILSON BY DEED DATED AUGUST 12, 1988 AND  RECORDED  IN  BOOK  580  OF
 DEEDS  AT  PAGE  289; THENCE RUNNING SOUTH 75 DEGREES, 21 MINUTES AND 12
 SECONDS WEST TO AND ALONG AND BEYOND THE FACE OF  THE  TWO  STORY  BRICK
 BUILDING  ON  THE  PREMISES  DESCRIBED  HEREIN  BEING ALSO THE NORTHERLY
 BOUNDS OF THE LANDS OF SAID WETMORE AND WILSON, A DISTANCE OF 77.00 FEET
 TO THE NORTHWESTERLY CORNER OF SAID LANDS OF WETMORE AND WILSON;  THENCE
 RUNNING  NORTH 14 DEGREES, 28 MINUTES AND 43 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF
 28.22 FEET ALONG THE LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OF ERSKINE  ROGERS,  JR.,  TO
 THE  SOUTHERLY  BOUNDS  OF  THE  LANDS  OF  DRAKE BROTHERS, INC.; THENCE
 RUNNING NORTH 75 DEGREES, 21 MINUTES AND  47  SECONDS  EAST  ALONG  SAID
 LANDS  TO  AND ALONG AND BEYOND THE FACE OF THE TWO STORY BRICK BUILDING
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 ON THE PREMISES HEREIN DESCRIBED,  A  DISTANCE  OF  77.00  FEET  TO  THE
 WESTERLY BOUNDS OF SAID MAIN STREET; THENCE RUNNING SOUTH 14 DEGREES, 28
 MINUTES  AND  43 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 28.20 FEET TO THE POINT AND
 PLACE OF BEGINNING.
   BEARINGS GIVEN IN THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION REFER TO THE MAGNETIC MERIDIAN
 AS OF NOVEMBER, 1970.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.