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                                  2994

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 20, 2015
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Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Economic Development

AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
  community centers and licensing notification

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

  Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 3 of section  105  of
the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law, as amended by chapter 406 of the
laws of 2007, are 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 hundred  feet  of  a  building
occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue [or], other place of
worship  OR COMMUNITY CENTER; 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 OR COMMUNITY
CENTER  to  the  center  of  the  nearest entrance of the premises to be
licensed; except, however, that no license shall be denied to any  prem-
ises at which a license under this chapter has been in existence contin-
uously  from a date prior to the date when a building on the same street
or avenue and within two hundred feet of said premises has been occupied
exclusively as a school, church, synagogue [or], other place of  worship
OR COMMUNITY CENTER.
  (b)  Within the context of this subdivision, the word "entrance" shall
mean a door of a school, of a house  of  worship,  or  of  the  premises
sought to be licensed, regularly used to give ingress to students of the
school,  to  the  general  public attending the place of worship, and to
patrons or guests of the premises proposed to be licensed,  except  that
where  a  school  [or], house of worship OR COMMUNITY CENTER is set back
from a public thoroughfare, the walkway or stairs leading  to  any  such
door  shall be deemed an entrance; and the measurement shall be taken to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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the center of the walkway or stairs at the  point  where  it  meets  the
building line or public thoroughfare. A door which has no exterior hard-
ware, or which is used solely as an emergency or fire exit, or for main-
tenance  purposes,  or  which leads directly to a part of a building not
regularly used by the general  public  or  patrons,  is  not  deemed  an
"entrance".
  S  2.  The  opening paragraph of section 107 of the alcoholic beverage
control law is amended to read as follows:
  Every person procuring a license hereunder must  NOTIFY  OTHER  LIQUOR
LICENSE  HOLDERS WITHIN ONE-HALF MILE OF THE PROPOSED LICENSED PREMISES,
THE STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS  WHOSE  DISTRICT  ENCOMPASSES  THE  PROPOSED
LICENSED  PREMISES,  THE  LOCAL  MUNICIPALITY  WITHIN WHICH THE PROPOSED
LICENSED PREMISES  IS  LOCATED,  AND  THE  BLOCK  CLUB  AND/OR  BUSINESS
DISTRICT  WITHIN  WHICH  THE  PROPOSED  LICENSED PREMISES IS LOCATED AND
publish a notice thereof as herein provided:
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.