New York Senate Bill S05637 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5637 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 26, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to prohibiting cannabis storefronts from being located within a certain distance from any town, city or village which has opted out of permitting the sale of cannabis The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 72 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront within a 4 quarter mile of any town, city or village which has adopted a local law 5 requesting the cannabis control board to prohibit the establishment of 6 retail dispensary licenses and/or on-site consumption licenses within 7 the jurisdiction of such town, city or village. 8 § 2. Section 77 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new subdi- 9 vision 4-a to read as follows: 10 4-a. No applicant shall be granted an adult-use on-site consumption 11 license for any premises located within a quarter mile of any town, city 12 or village which has adopted a local law requesting the cannabis control 13 board to prohibit the establishment of retail dispensary licenses and/or 14 on-site consumption licenses within the jurisdiction of such town, city 15 or village. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10375-01-5