NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A10596A
SPONSOR: Tague TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to a
license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill will allow Avalon Lounge to obtain a license to sell liquor at
retail for consumption on premise.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one of this legislation amends subdivision 7 of section 64-a of
the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law by adding a new paragraph (c-7) to
allow the State Liquor Authority to issue a retail license to Avalon
Lounge for the on-premises consumption of alcohol, given that said prem-
ises area within 200 feet of a place of worship.
Section two provides the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
The Avalon Lounge, located in the heart of the trendy, Village of Cats-
kill, features a performance venue and lounge as well as a vast menu of
Korean food. Currently, Avalon Lounge has a beer and wine license but is
prohibited from offering a full bar to its patrons because the venue is
located within 200 feet of a place of worship.
The owners of Avalon Lounge are seeking this exemption to not only be
able to meet their customers' expectations of such a venue but to also
draw in additional business as more and more people flock to the
Village.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2020: A.10205 referred to Economic Development
2021: A.4786 referred to Economic Development
2022: A.4786 referred to Economic Development
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10596--A
IN ASSEMBLY
March 13, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development -- 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 a
license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises
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-a of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c-7) to read as
3 follows:
4 (c-7) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
5 sion, the authority may issue a retail license for on-premises consump-
6 tion for a premises which shall be located 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 county of Greene, bounded
11 and described as follows:
12 ALL that piece or parcel of land, situated in the Village of Catskill,
13 County of Greene and State of New York, described as follows:
14 BEGINNING at the southeast corner of that parcel of land described as
15 "Parcel 1" in deed recorded in Liber 613 of Deeds at Page 246, being on
16 the north line of Church Street, thence N 89°02'07" W, 58.68 feet along
17 the north line of said Church Street to a line 20.00 feet east from,
18 when measured at right angles to, and parallel with the centerline of
19 existing southbound Water Street;
20 THENCE N 03°03'19" W, 45.31 feet parallel with the centerline of said
21 Water Street to the northwest corner of that parcel of land described as
22 "Parcel 2" in said Liber 613 of Deeds at Page 246;
23 THENCE N 89°06'33" E, 62.32 feet along the north line of said "Parcel
24 2" and along the north line of said "Parcel 1" to the northeast corner
25 of said "Parcel 1";
26 THENCE S 01°29'38" W, 47.22 feet along the east line of said "Parcel
27 1" to the point of the BEGINNING.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15221-02-6
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1 Being the same premises conveyed by Deed dated November 18, 2005, to
2 Samuel D. Aldi from Dominic Joseph Cornelius, and recorded in the Greene
3 County Clerk's Office on December 8, 2005, in Liber 1197 of Deeds at
4 Page 193.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
