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Assembly Bill A1847

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Regulates the establishment and location of methadone treatment centers

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2017-A1847 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2147
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §22.13, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9145
2013-2014: A5225
2015-2016: A3070, A9472, S6589

2017-A1847 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Regulates the establishment and location of a methadone treatment center by prohibiting its establishment or continued operation within five hundred feet of an educational institution at the secondary level or below, day care center, park, church, synagogue or other place of worship unless located within a hospital.

2017-A1847 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1847
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HARRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the location of
   methadone treatment centers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
 22.13 to read as follows:
 § 22.13  LOCATION OF METHADONE TREATMENT CENTERS.
   (A)  IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER REQUIREMENTS OF THIS  CHAPTER  OR  OTHER
 PROVISION  OF  LAW,  RULE  OR  REGULATION, NO METHADONE TREATMENT CENTER
 SHALL BE ESTABLISHED, APPROVED, MAINTAINED OR CONTINUED WHICH  SHALL  BE
 WITHIN  A RADIUS OF FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED AS A PUBLIC
 OR PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION AT  THE  SECONDARY  LEVEL  OR  BELOW,
 DAY-CARE  CENTER,  PARK,  CHURCH,  SYNAGOGUE  OR  OTHER PLACE OF WORSHIP
 UNLESS LOCATED  IN  A  HOSPITAL;  THE  MEASUREMENTS  TO  DETERMINE  SUCH
 DISTANCE  SHALL BE TAKEN IN A STRAIGHT LINE FROM THE CENTER OF THE NEAR-
 EST ENTRANCE OF SUCH PUBLIC OR PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, DAY-CARE
 CENTER, CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE OR OTHER PLACE OF WORSHIP TO THE CENTER OF THE
 NEAREST ENTRANCE OF SUCH METHADONE TREATMENT CENTER.
   (B)  WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THIS SECTION,  THE  WORD  "ENTRANCE"  SHALL
 MEAN  A  DOOR  OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, OF A DAY-
 CARE CENTER, OF A HOUSE OF  WORSHIP,  OR  OF  SUCH  METHADONE  TREATMENT
 CENTER  REGULARLY  USED  TO GIVE INGRESS TO STUDENTS, TO THE PARENTS AND
 CHILDREN OF THE DAY-CARE CENTER, TO THE  GENERAL  PUBLIC  ATTENDING  THE
 PLACE  OF  WORSHIP,  AND  TO ANY DRUG DEPENDENT PERSONS BEING TREATED AT
 SUCH METHADONE TREATMENT CENTER;  EXCEPT THAT, WHERE A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE
 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, DAY-CARE CENTER OR HOUSE OF WORSHIP IS SET BACK
 FROM A PUBLIC THOROUGHFARE, THE WALKWAY OR STAIRS LEADING  TO  ANY  SUCH
 DOOR  SHALL  BE DEEMED AN ENTRANCE AND THE MEASUREMENT SHALL BE TAKEN TO
 THE CENTER OF THE WALKWAY OR STAIRS AT THE  POINT  WHERE  IT  MEETS  THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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