NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A11124
SPONSOR: Brabenec TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
providing for a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on
certain premises
PURPOSE:
Allows Cork Wine Bar in the Village of Florida to obtain a retail
license for on-premises consumption despite being within 200' of a
building occupied as a school or place of worship.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends subdivision 7 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage
control law, adding a new paragraph e-18 to allow the issuance of a
retail license for on-premises consumption for a premises that is
located within 200' of a building occupied as a school, church, syna-
gogue, or other place of worship.
Section 2: Sets effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill would allow the State Liquor Authority to issue a retail
license for on-premises consumption to Cork Wine Bar, which is located
within 200' of a place of worship that supports the issuance of a full
license.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Increased tax revenue
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11124
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to
providing for 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 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e-18) to read as
3 follows:
4 (e-18) 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 school, church, synagogue or other
8 place of worship, provided such premises constitute 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 Orange in the
11 village of Florida, at 22 N Main Street, bounded and described as
12 follows:
13 ALL that lot of land with the building and improvements thereon situ-
14 ate in the Town of Warwick, Village of Florida, County of Orange and
15 State of New York, bounded and described as follows:
16 BEGINNING on the West line of Main Street in Florida at the Northeast
17 corner of L. B. Vail's Hotel; thence along said street North six degrees
18 East, forty-one feet; thence North eighty-five degrees West, ninety
19 feet; thence South six degrees West, forty feet; thence South eighty-
20 four degrees forty-five minutes East, ninety feet; to the place of
21 beginning.
22 TOGETHER with a right of way to pass and re-pass to the rear end of
23 the said lot on the land lying between the store house of W. L. Vail and
24 the land conveyed hereby; such right of way being about eleven and one
25 half feet in width.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ALSO all that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Warwick,
2 Village of Florida, County of Orange and State of New York, bounded and
3 described as follows:
4 BEGINNING at an iron in the northwesterly corner of the lands of David
5 Werner, said iron being S 37 degrees 50 minutes W, 90 feet from an iron
6 in the westerly line of Main Street in the Village of Florida, and
7 running from thence along the lands of Stanley Mioduszewski S 72 degrees
8 no minutes W 49.87 feet to an iron; thence along the same S 83 degrees
9 and 53 minutes W, 29.4 feet to the line of lands of Vail and Parkhurst;
10 thence along the latter S 5 degrees 40 minutes E, 23.37 feet to a corner
11 of lands formerly of W. J. Roe; thence along the latter N 88 degrees 37
12 minutes E 76.0 feet to a corner of the lands of David Werner; thence
13 along the latter N 2 degrees 20 minutes W, 40.0 feet to the place of
14 beginning.
15 TOGETHER with the use with others of a right of way extending from the
16 abovedescribed parcel along the northerly line of lands of David Werner
17 to the westerly line of Main Street.
18 TOGETHER with rights of way as described in Liber 734 cp. 436.
19 SUBJECT to conditions, notes, and setbacks as shown on filed map, if
20 any; easements, covenants, and restrictions of record; public utility
21 easements; and rights of the public in and to any portion of the proper-
22 ty lying in the bed of a public road.
23 BEING the same lands and premises described in a deed from Renee
24 Weiss, as Administratrix of the Estate of Morris Werner, to Werner Real-
25 ty of Florida, Ltd., and recorded in the Orange County Clerk's Office in
26 Liber 4177 of Deeds, at page 133.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
