Prohibits cannabis retail and on-site consumption licensees from operating such premises within one thousand feet of the perimeter of a school grounds; prohibits the advertising and marketing of cannabis content within one thousand feet of the perimeter of a school grounds, playgrounds, child day care providers, public parks, and libraries.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8589
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to prohibiting cannabis
retail and on-site consumption licensees from operating such premises
within one thousand feet of the perimeter of a school grounds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 72 of the cannabis law is amended
2 to read as follows:
3 6. No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront within [five
4 hundred] one thousand feet of the perimeter of a school grounds as such
5 term is defined in the education law or within two hundred feet of a
6 house of worship.
7 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 77 of the cannabis law is amended to
8 read as follows:
9 4. No applicant shall be granted an adult-use on-site consumption
10 license for any premises within [five hundred] one thousand feet of the
11 perimeter of a school grounds as such term is defined in the education
12 law or two hundred feet from a house of worship.
13 § 3. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 86 of the cannabis law
14 is amended to read as follows:
15 (e) is within or is readily observed within [five hundred] one thou-
16 sand feet of the perimeter of a school grounds, playground, child day
17 care providers, public park, or library;
18 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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