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What is NYC AC § 20-235?

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This section outlines the licensing requirements for stoop line stands in New York City. It prohibits the licensing of stands at locations not established by July 24, 1935, if they are within 200 feet of a store selling similar articles or services, with exceptions for store occupants. Applies to vendors seeking to operate stoop line stands.

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§ 20-235 Stoop line stands; requirements.

AC § 20-235

No such stand at a location not licensed on the twenty-fourth day of July, nineteen hundred thirty-five, shall be licensed if the proposed location of the stand is within two hundred feet of any store in which any of such articles are sold, or any of such services are rendered, except that the occupant of a store may be licensed to maintain a stand in front of such store for the sale of such articles or services as are provided within the store.

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