NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7411A
SPONSOR: Hyndman TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to an
exemption for American Legion Post 483, Queens, NY, from the prohibition
of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school
PURPOSE: This bill will allow Rosedale- Laurelton American Legion
Post 483 to
sell alcohol beverages.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
The bill adds an paragraph e-16 to section 64 of the alcoholic beverage
control law to carve out Rosedale-Laurelton VFW Post 483 from the 200
ft. alcoholic beverage control law exemption that is currently barring
the establishment from legal authorization to sell alcoholic beverages.
JUSTIFICATION:
At current, Rosedale Laurelton American Legion Post 483 is within 200
feet of the Rosedale school. At the heart of the community, this VFW has
been doing a great deal of service work in the community and frequently
hosts veterans. VFW Post 483 cannot serve alcohol, as they are within
200 feet of Rosedale School. This bill would authorize the establishment
to serve liquor.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2023: A.7411, Hyndman, Committee on Economic Development
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
Bill Text
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7411--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN, ZEBROWSKI, CHANG -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Economic Development -- recommitted to the Committee on Economic
Development in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to an
exemption for American Legion Post 483, Queens, NY, from the prohibi-
tion of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school
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-16) to read as
3 follows:
4 (e-16) 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 within two hundred feet of a
7 building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other
8 place of worship, provided such premises constitutes a premises for the
9 sale of food or beverages at retail for consumption on the premises
10 located wholly within the boundaries of the Borough of Queens, county of
11 Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows:
12 All that lot or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the fourth
13 yard of the borough of Queens, County of Queens, City of New York, and
14 state of New York, a certain plot of land being lots numbered five
15 hundred fourteen (514), five hundred fifteen (515), and five hundred
16 sixteen (516), in block fifteen (15) on a certain map entitled "Map of
17 Rosedale Terrace," surveyed December 1905, and May 1906, by Evans Bronx,
18 Jamaica, NY, and filed in the office of the Clerk of said county of
19 Queens, on the 18th day of February, 1907, and known as Map number 418,
20 No. 2. said premises being situated on the southeast corner of Brook-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11526-02-4
A. 7411--A 2
1 ville Boulevard, and Stratford Avenue, Rosedale, Queens County, New York
2 being a plot with a frontage on Brookville Boulevard, of approximately
3 sixty (60) feet and a frontage on Stratford Avenue, of approximately
4 seventy-four (74) feet, irregular. Together with the appurtenances and
5 all the estate and right of the length of that first part, in and to
6 said premises.
7 Being and intended to be the same premises described in a deed from
8 George Deutch and Angela Deutch to Rosedale-Laurelton American Legion
9 Post 483 dated August 29th, 1934 and recorded with the Queens County
10 Office of the Register August 31st, 1934 in the Queens County City
11 Register File Number 18865.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
