Exempts the town of Pound Ridge from the establishment of retail dispensary licenses and on-site consumption licenses for cannabis, provided that the town adopts a local law prohibiting the establishment of such licenses.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9148
IN SENATE
May 1, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- 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 exempting the town of
Pound Ridge from the establishment of retail dispensary licenses and
on-site consumption licenses for cannabis
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 131 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. The licensure and establishment of a retail dispensary license
4 and/or on-site consumption license under the provisions of article four
5 of this chapter authorizing the retail sale of adult-use cannabis to
6 cannabis consumers shall not be applicable to the town of Pound Ridge in
7 the county of Westchester, provided that the town of Pound Ridge,
8 between the effective date of this subdivision and nine months thereaft-
9 er, adopts a local law, subject to a permissive referendum pursuant to
10 section twenty-four of the municipal home rule law, requesting that the
11 cannabis control board prohibit the establishment of such retail dispen-
12 sary licenses and/or on-site consumption licenses within the jurisdic-
13 tion of the town. After nine months from the effective date of this
14 subdivision, no local law may be adopted that prohibits the establish-
15 ment of retail dispensary licensees and/or on-site consumption licenses;
16 provided, however, that a local law repealing such prohibition may be
17 adopted after such date.
18 § 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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