Bill Text: NY A10091 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - referred to economic development [A10091 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10091-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10091

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Economic Development

        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.
                                                                   LBD15280-01-4