STATE OF NEW YORK
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7295
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
July 16, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to establishing an adult-
use cultivator provisional license
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The cannabis law is amended by adding a new section 68-c to
2 read as follows:
3 § 68-c. Adult-use cultivator provisional license. 1. If the board has
4 not established the process for the issuance of adult-use cultivator's
5 licenses by January first, two thousand twenty-two, it shall provide any
6 applicant an adult-use cultivator's provisional license pursuant to
7 guidelines established by the board. Such provisional license shall
8 provide the same authorizations granted to any adult-use cultivator
9 pursuant to section sixty-eight of this article and shall take effect no
10 later than March first, two thousand twenty-two. The board may establish
11 a date by which such provisional licenses shall expire.
12 2. If the board has not established the process for either: (a) the
13 issuance of an adult-use cultivator's license; or (b) the issuance of an
14 adult-use cultivator's provisional license by January first, two thou-
15 sand twenty-two, the department of agriculture and markets shall, within
16 thirty days, establish and issue such provisional licenses until such
17 time that the board is able to do so.
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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