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A10707Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS8662

Allow Alcohol Sales Near School

Official title

“Relates to an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school”

Sponsor Crystal Peoples-StokesAD-141Affects Economy
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
3/10
Low
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill allows a specific premises in Buffalo, Erie County, to obtain an on-premises liquor license, despite its proximity to a school.

Why it matters

  1. Creates an exception to the general rule prohibiting liquor licenses near schools,. allowing a specific property in Buffalo to serve alcohol on premises despite being within 200 feet of a school.

  2. Targets a single, precisely described parcel of land,. suggesting this bill is tailored for a particular business or development opportunity, rather than a broad policy change.

  3. Reflects local economic and community interests,. as it potentially enables new restaurant or hospitality business activity in an area previously restricted, which could mean more jobs, tax revenue, and neighborhood revitalization.

  4. Demonstrates how state laws can be amended for specific local cases,. showing the influence of local advocacy or economic priorities in state-level legislation, and possibly setting a precedent for similar exceptions elsewhere.

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Allow Alcohol Sales Near School

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Crystal Peoples-Stokes

Assembly Member · Assembly District 141

Rules

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Signed chap.181
  2. Delivered to governor
  3. Returned to assembly
  4. Passed senateVote 60–0
  5. 3rd reading cal.998
  6. Substituted for S8662
  7. Referred to rules
  8. Delivered to senate
  9. Passed assembly
  10. Ordered to third reading rules cal.215
  11. Rules report cal.215
  12. Reported
Show 3 earlier actions
  1. Reported referred to rules
  2. Reported referred to ways and means
  3. Referred to economic development

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S8662Senate

Alcohol Sales Near School Exempt

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Timothy M. Kennedy

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

2 pagesUnderlined is new[Struck] is removedOfficial text on nysenate.gov ↗

STATE OF NEW YORK

10707

IN ASSEMBLY

July 1, 2020

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of 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 a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Paragraph (e-11) of subdivision 7 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as added by chapter 280 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:

(e-11) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, 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 school, 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 Erie, bounded and described as follows:

ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Buffalo, County of Erie and State of New York, and bounded and described as follows: being part of Lot number seventy-one (71), Township eleven (11), Range eight (8) of the Holland Land Company's survey and in a subdivision of part of said lots 71 and 72, made for Main Street Land and Improvement Co., by C.F. Witmer, surveyor, a map of which subdivision is on file in Erie County Clerk's Office under Cover 292. This premises herby conveyed being designated as subdivision lot No. thirtynine (39) in Block "C" and bounded and described as follows:

BEGINNING at a point in the westerly line of Main Street thirty-six and one-half (36-1/2) feet northerly from its intersection with the northerly line of Heath Street (formerly Morton Street). Running thence northerly along said line of Main Street thirty-six and one-half (36-1/2) feet; thence westerly at right angles with said line of Main Street to a sixteen (16) foot alley; thence southerly along the easterly line of said alley to a point where a line drawn at right angles with

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD16813-01-0

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said line of Main Street would intersect said line of Main Street at the place of beginning and thence easterly at right angles with Main Street to the said line of Main Street at the place of beginning.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after the effective date of chapter 280 of the laws of 2019.

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