Bill Text: NJ A5794 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides medical cannabis dispensaries permitted use status in certain zoning districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-11-07 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee [A5794 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A5794-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 5794

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 7, 2019

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  GORDON M. JOHNSON

District 37 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides medical cannabis dispensaries permitted use status in certain zoning districts.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning the location of medical cannabis dispensaries and supplementing P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-1 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  A medical cannabis dispensary shall be a permitted use within every commercial or business district of a municipality, and any other zoning district within which a pharmacy, a drugstore, or a retail business is a permitted or conditional use.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would provide that a medical cannabis dispensary is a permitted use in a commercial or business district of a municipality, and in any other zoning district within which a pharmacy, a drugstore, or a retail business is a permitted or conditional use.  A medical cannabis dispensary is an organization that has been issued a permit by the State to, among other things, purchase medical cannabis and sell it to qualifying patients.

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