Bill Text: NY A10091 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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