Bill Text: NY A08490 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends the opt-out date for municipalities to prohibit the establishment of retail dispensary licenses and on-site consumption licenses until December 31, 2022.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-25 - held for consideration in codes [A08490 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08490-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8490 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY November 17, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to extending the opt-out date for municipalities to prohibit the establishment of retail dispensary licenses and on-site consumption licenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 131 of the cannabis law is amended 2 to read as follows: 3 1. 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 a town, city or village 7 which, after the effective date of this chapter, and, on or before [the8later of] December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-one or nine months9after the effective date of this section] twenty-two, adopts a local 10 law, subject to permissive referendum governed by section twenty-four of 11 the municipal home rule law, requesting the cannabis control board to 12 prohibit the establishment of such retail dispensary licenses and/or 13 on-site consumption licenses contained in article four of this chapter, 14 within the jurisdiction of the town, city or village. Provided, however, 15 that any town law shall apply to the area of the town outside of any 16 village within such town. No local law may be adopted after [the later17of] December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-one or nine months after18the effective date of this section] twenty-two prohibiting the estab- 19 lishment of retail dispensary licenses and/or on-site consumption 20 licenses; provided, however, that a local law repealing such prohibition 21 may be adopted after such date. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13130-01-1