§ 64-b. License to sell liquor on premises commonly known as a bottle\nclub. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation\noperating a place for profit or pecuniary gain, with a capacity for the\nassemblage of twenty or more persons to permit a person or persons to\ncome to the place of assembly for the purpose of consuming alcoholic\nbeverages on said premises, which alcoholic beverages are either\nprovided by the operator of the place of assembly, his agents, servants\nor employees, or are brought onto said premises by the person or persons\nassembling at such place, unless an appropriate license has first been\nobtained from the state liquor authority by the operator of said place\nof assembly. Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the\ndefinition of place of assembly in this chapter or any other law.\nNothing contained herein shall prohibit or restrict the leasing or use\nof such place of assemblage as defined herein by any organization or\nclub enumerated in subdivision seven hereof.\n 2. Upon or after the effective date hereof any person may make an\napplication to the appropriate board for a special license to operate a\nbottle club.\n 3. Such application shall be in such form and shall contain such\ninformation as shall be required by the rules of the liquor authority\nand shall be accompanied by a check or draft in the amount required by\nthis article for such license.\n 4. Section fifty-four of this chapter shall control so far as\napplicable the procedure in connection with such application.\n 5. (a) No bottle club license shall be granted for any premises which\nshall be\n (i) on the same street or avenue and within two hundred feet of a\nbuilding occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other\nplace of worship; or\n (ii) in a city, town or village having a population of twenty thousand\nor more within five hundred feet of three or more existing premises\nlicensed and operating pursuant to this section and sections sixty-four,\nsixty-four-a, sixty-four-c, and/or sixty-four-d of this article;\n (iii) the measurements in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph\nare to be taken in straight lines from the center of the nearest\nentrance of the premises sought to be licensed to the center of the\nnearest entrance of such school, church, synagogue or other place of\nworship or to the center of the nearest entrance of each such premises\nlicensed and operating pursuant to this section and sections sixty-four,\nsixty-four-a, sixty-four-c, and/or sixty-four-d of this article; except\nthat no license shall be denied to any premises at which a license under\nthis chapter has been in existence continuously from a date prior to the\ndate when a building on the same street or avenue and within two hundred\nfeet of said premises has been occupied exclusively as a school, church,\nsynagogue or other place of worship; and except that no license shall be\ndenied to any premises, which is within five hundred feet of three or\nmore existing premises licensed and operating pursuant to this section\nand sections sixty-four, sixty-four-a, sixty-four-c, and/or sixty-four-d\nof this article, at which a license under this chapter has been in\nexistence continuously on or prior to November first, nineteen hundred\nninety-three. The liquor authority, in its discretion, may authorize the\nremoval of any such licensed premises to a different location on the\nsame street or avenue, within two hundred feet of said school, church,\nsynagogue or other place of worship, provided that such new location is\nnot within a closer distance to such school, church, synagogue or other\nplace of worship.\n (b) Within the context of this subdivision, the word "entrance" shall\nmean a door of a school, of a house of worship, or of premises licensed\nand operating pursuant to this section and sections sixty-four,\nsixty-four-a, sixty-four-c, and/or sixty-four-d of this article or of\nthe premises
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