Permits certain activities in premises licensed for adult-use on-premises consumption of cannabis including the sale of food, non-alcoholic beverages and entertainment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5826
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 permitting additional
business activities on the premises where cannabis is sold for adult-
use on-premises consumption
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 77 of the cannabis law is amended
2 to read as follows:
3 9. No adult-use on-site consumption licensee shall suffer, permit or
4 promote activities or events on its premises wherein any person shall
5 use such premises for activities including, but not limited to, gambl-
6 ing, exposing or simulating, contests, or fireworks that are prohibited
7 by subdivision six, six-a, six-b, six-c or seven of section one hundred
8 six of the alcoholic beverage control law or any other similar activ-
9 ities the board deems to be prohibited; provided, however, that licen-
10 sees may conduct business activities on the premises other than the
11 smoking, vaporizing, and ingesting of cannabis or cannabis products,
12 including, but not limited to, any of the following:
13 (a) selling non-cannabis-infused food;
14 (b) selling nonalcoholic beverages; and
15 (c) allowing, and selling tickets for, live musical or other perform-
16 ances not otherwise prohibited by this subdivision.
17 § 2. 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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