A 8795: Exempts certain property located in the city of Glens Falls, county of Warren, from the prohibition of alcohol sales within two hundred feet of a building occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of worship.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8795 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY June 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- 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 3 of section 105 of the alcoholic beverage 2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows: 3 (d) The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to premises 4 located wholly within the boundaries of the county of Warren, bounded 5 and described as follows: 6 ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the City of Glens 7 Falls, County of Warren, New York, bounded and described as follows: 8 Beginning at the intersection of the southwesterly side of Glen Street 9 with the northwesterly side of South Street and running thence along the 10 southwesterly side of Glen Street north 51 degrees 51 minutes west 11 sixty-five and fifty-two one hundredths feet (65.52) to premises now or 12 formerly owned by Daniel L. Robertson, being the store lot formerly 13 owned by Ruliff Kipp; thence south 38 degrees 9 minutes west along the 14 southeasterly side of said Robertson lot nine and fifty-eight one 15 hundredths feet (9.58) to a point at the southeasterly corner of the 16 foundation of the building on said Robertson property and at the 17 northeasterly corner of the foundation of the building on the premises 18 herein described and continuing on the same course and along the said 19 southeasterly side of said Robertson lot one hundred ten and thirty-nine 20 one-hundredths feet (110.39) (said course being in all one hundred nine- 21 teen and ninety-seven one hundredths feet (119.97) to the northeasterly 22 line of the premises formerly owned by Colvin & Parks upon which is 23 constructed the Empire Theatre; thence along said northeasterly line of 24 said Colvin & Parks (now Empire Theatre Lot) south 48 degrees 2 minutes EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13311-03-5 
 A. 8795 2 1 east eighteen and thirty-five one-hundredths feet (18.35) to an angle 2 point in said property line of lands formerly of Colvin & Parks (now 3 Empire Theatre Lot) which point is north 58 degrees 32 minutes west 4 sixty-two and seventy-four one-hundredths feet (62.74) from the 5 northwesterly side of South Street; thence continuing along the 6 northeasterly line of said Colvin & Parks (now Empire Theatre Lot) south 7 58 degrees 32 minutes east sixty-two and seventy-four one-hundredths 8 feet (62.74) to the northwesterly side of South Street and to a point 12 9 feet measured along said northwesterly side of South Street from the 10 southeasterly corner of the foundation of the building on said premises 11 herein described (formerly American Hotel and later Hotel Ruliff and now 12 Plaza Hotel); thence along the said northwesterly side of said South 13 Street north 30 degrees 36 minutes east one hundred fourteen and nine- 14 ty-one hundredths feet (114.90) to the point or place of beginning. 15 "Reserving, however, the right of way between the said Colvin & Parks 16 line and the said Plaza Hotel Building and along the northerly line of 17 said Colvin & Parks property sufficient for teams to pass through and 18 for all pedestrians seeking ingress and egress from said Colvin & Parks 19 land which right of way shall not be obstructed or built over by the 20 owner of the premises herein described, its successors or assigns." 21 Excepting and reserving from the foregoing, the underground passageway 22 or vault, located in the alley extending westerly from South Street in 23 said City of Glens Falls, beside the building located on the lands now 24 or formerly of Empire Real Estate & Theatre Co., as described in a deed 25 from J.E. Bennett and Nicholas Kakoulis to New York Power and Light 26 Corporation, dated the 13th day of November, 1942 and recorded in the 27 Warren County Clerk's Office on the 16th day of January, 1943 in Book 28 223 of Deeds at page 535, together with the rights of way and easements 29 therein provided. 30 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.