A 11540 NY
Relates to an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school
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Summary
New York A 11540 creates an exemption to the state's prohibition on alcohol sales within 200 feet of schools, churches, synagogues, and other places of worship. The bill allows the state liquor authority to issue restaurant licenses for establishments located within the prohibited distance zone, provided the establishment is operated as a restaurant. The exemption applies only to properties located within a specific defined area in Manhattan bounded by 16th Street and Irving Place. The bill takes effect immediately.
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Official abstract
Relates to an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school.
Sponsor (1)
- Rules Committee · primary
Action history (15)
- Jun 1, 2026 REFERRED TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT · lower
- Jun 2, 2026 REFERENCE CHANGED TO WAYS AND MEANS · lower
- Jun 3, 2026 REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES · lower
- Jun 3, 2026 REPORTED · lower
- Jun 3, 2026 RULES REPORT CAL.460 · lower
- Jun 3, 2026 ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.460 · lower
- Jun 4, 2026 PASSED ASSEMBLY · lower
- Jun 4, 2026 DELIVERED TO SENATE · lower
- Jun 4, 2026 REFERRED TO RULES · upper
- Jun 4, 2026 SUBSTITUTED FOR S10616 · upper
- Jun 4, 2026 3RD READING CAL.1775 · upper
- Jun 4, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
- Jun 4, 2026 RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- Jul 17, 2026 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR · lower
- Jul 24, 2026 SIGNED CHAP.181 · lower
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript A11540 Summary: BILL NO A11540   SAME AS SAME AS S10616
  SPONSOR Rules (Powers)   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §64, ABC L   Relates to an exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a school.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
11540
IN ASSEMBLY
June 1, 2026 ___________
Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Powers) -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 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-18) to read as 3 follows: 4 (e-18) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdi- 5 vision the authority may issue restaurant licenses for a premises which 6 shall be within two hundred feet of a building occupied exclusively as a 7 school, church, synagogue, or other place of worship, provided such 8 premises is being conducted as a restaurant located wholly within the 9 boundaries of the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, county of New 10 York, bounded and described as follows: 11 BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly 12 side of 16th Street with the westerly side of Irving Place: running 13 thence westerly along the southerly side of 16th Street 100 feet; thence 14 southerly parallel with Irving Place 103 feet 3 inches to the center 15 line of the block; thence easterly along the center line of the block 20 16 feet; thence southerly parallel with the westerly side of Irving Place 17 40 feet 9 inches; thence easterly parallel with the southerly side of 18 16th Street and part of the way through a party wall 80 feet to the 19 westerly side of Irving Place; thence northerly along the westerly side 20 of Irving Place, 144 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15993-01-6
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