STATE OF NEW YORK
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10599
IN ASSEMBLY
June 20, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rajkumar) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to prohibiting cannabis
retail and on-site consumption licensees from operating such premises
within one thousand feet of a school or a child day care center
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 72 of the cannabis law is amended
2 to read as follows:
3 6. No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront within [five
4 hundred] one thousand feet of [a] school grounds as such term is defined
5 in the education law, or within one thousand feet of a child day care
6 center as defined in the social services law, or within two hundred feet
7 of a house of worship.
8 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 77 of the cannabis law is amended to
9 read as follows:
10 4. No applicant shall be granted an adult-use on-site consumption
11 license for any premises within [five hundred] one thousand feet of
12 school grounds as such term is defined in the education law, or within
13 one thousand feet of a child day care center as defined in the social
14 services law, or within two hundred feet [from] of a house of worship.
15 § 3. 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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