STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6952 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage 2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e-17) to read as 3 follows: 4 (e-17) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdi- 5 vision, the authority may issue a retail license for on-premises 6 consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred 7 feet of a building occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of 8 worship, provided such premises constitute a premises for the sale of 9 food or beverages at retail for consumption on the premises located 10 wholly within the boundaries of the county of Columbia, bounded and 11 described as follows: 12 ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND situate, lying and being in 13 the City of Hudson, County of Columbia and the State of New York, more 14 particularly bounded and described as follows: 15 BEGINNING at a point formed by the intersection on the presumed 16 northeasterly line of Warren Street with the presumed southeasterly line 17 of Fourth Street at or near the corner of the brick building on this 18 property; thence running North 44 degrees, 15 minutes and 30 seconds 19 East for a distance of 77.65 feet and North 44 degrees, 15 minutes and 20 30 seconds East for a distance of 42.35 feet to the presumed southwes- 21 terly line of Prison Alley; thence running South 45 degrees, 44 minutes 22 and 30 seconds East for a distance of 20.29 feet, South 45 degrees, 44 23 minutes and 30 seconds East for a distance of 29.71 feet, and South 45 24 degrees, 44 minutes and 30 seconds East for a distance of 28.94 feet to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11039-01-5A. 6952 2 1 the lands now or formerly of White Whale Limited known as 408-410 Warren 2 Street and described in deed 749 page 1640; thence running South 44 3 degrees, 15 minutes and 30 seconds West for a distance of 120.00 feet to 4 the presumed northeasterly line of Warren Street; thence running North 5 45 degrees, 44 minutes and 30 seconds West for a distance of 28.94 feet 6 and North 45 degrees, 44 minutes and 30 seconds West for a distance of 7 50.00 feet to the point or place of beginning. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.