Relates to the issuing of licenses to engage in research, instructional activities and chemical analysis relating to controlled substances; provides that no license shall be issued to a person for the administration of a program which includes the administration or dispensing of a narcotic drug, or the supervision of the self-administration of a narcotic drug by an addict or habitual user at a designated location at which the use of such narcotic drug would otherwise be noncompliant under the public health law or penal law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the issuing of
licenses to engage in research, instructional activities and chemical
analysis relating to controlled substances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3325 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no license shall be
4 issued under this title to a person for the administration of a program
5 which includes the administration or dispensing of a narcotic drug, or
6 the supervision of the self-administration of a narcotic drug by an
7 addict or habitual user, as defined in section thirty-three hundred two
8 of this article, at a designated location at which the use of such
9 narcotic drug would otherwise be noncompliant with the provisions of
10 this chapter or the penal law.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
13 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
14 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
15 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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