Assembly Bill A1944

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Extends size of areas in which granting on-premises retail licenses is restricted; adds community and senior centers to list of protected buildings

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  • 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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2019-A1944 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §64, ABC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6062
2011-2012: A1375
2013-2014: A3558
2015-2016: A3735
2017-2018: A2931

2019-A1944 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends the size of areas for which granting on-premises retail licenses is restricted: extends from 200 feet to 350 feet the area around certain listed buildings (i.e., any building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship) in which a retail license for on-premises consumption may not be granted, and adds community center and senior citizens' center to list of protected buildings around which such licenses are so restricted; for cities, towns and villages of 20,000 or more, increases the distance from 3 or more existing premises for which a license for a premises cannot be granted except under certain limited specified circumstances (i.e., changes current rule that a retail license for on-premises consumption shall not be granted for a premises that is within 500 feet of 3 or more existing premises, to provide that a retail license for on-premises consumption shall not be granted for a premises that is within 650 feet of 3 or more existing premises); provides that with respect to the limited, specified circumstances under which a license may be granted for a premises located within 650 feet of 3 or more of existing premises, an on-site visit by the authority to investigate the premises seeking the license and the surrounding neighborhood is required.

2019-A1944 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1944
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
   granting of retail licenses for on-premises consumption
 
   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, as amended by chapter 463 of the laws  of  2009,  paragraph
 (e-4)  as  added  by chapter 421 of the laws of 2012, paragraph (e-5) as
 added by chapter 110 of the laws of 2013, paragraph (e-5)  as  added  by
 chapter 192 of the laws of 2013, paragraph (e-6) as added by chapter 100
 of the laws of 2014, paragraph (e-6) as added by chapter 457 of the laws
 of  2014,  paragraph  (e-7) as added by chapter 279 of the laws of 2015,
 paragraph (e-7) as added by chapter 450 of the laws of  2015,  paragraph
 (e-8)  as  added  by chapter 349 of the laws of 2016, paragraph (e-9) as
 added by chapter 362 of the laws of 2017, paragraph (e-9)  as  added  by
 chapter  482  of  the laws of 2017, paragraph (e-10) as added by chapter
 240 of the laws of 2018 and paragraph (f) as amended by chapter  185  of
 the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   7.  No retail license for on-premises consumption shall be granted for
 any premises which shall be
   (a) on the same street or avenue and within [two] THREE hundred  FIFTY
 feet  of  a building occupied exclusively as a school, COMMUNITY CENTER,
 SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER, church, synagogue or other place of worship or
   (b) in a city, town or village having a population of twenty  thousand
 or  more  within [five] SIX hundred FIFTY feet of three or more existing
 premises licensed and operating pursuant to this  section  and  sections
 sixty-four-a,  sixty-four-b,  sixty-four-c,  and/or sixty-four-d of this
 article;
   (c) the measurements in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision are
 to be taken in straight lines from the center of the nearest entrance of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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