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Assembly Bill A10140

Signed By Governor

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the location of retail adult-use dispensaries in proximity to schools and houses of worship; repealer

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2025-A10140 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9155
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §72 sub 6, amd §72, Cannabis L

2025-A10140 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends provisions limiting the location of retail adult-use dispensaries in proximity to schools and houses of worship.

2025-A10140 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10140
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ZINERMAN, PEOPLES-STOKES, STIRPE, ALVAREZ -- (at
   request of the  Office  of  Cannabis  Management)  --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to the location of adult-
   use retail dispensaries near schools and houses  of  worship;  and  to
   repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 72 of the cannabis law is REPEALED
 and a new subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
   6. (A) NO PREMISES WITH A LICENSE ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION,  OR
 SECTION  SIXTY-EIGHT-A OF THIS ARTICLE, OR SECTION SEVENTY-THREE OF THIS
 ARTICLE THAT ALLOWS FOR THE RETAIL SALE OF ADULT-USE CANNABIS, SHALL  BE
 LOCATED  ON  THE  SAME STREET AND WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING
 CONTAINING A SCHOOL.
   (B) NO PREMISES WITH A LICENSE ISSUED PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION,  OR
 SECTION  SIXTY-EIGHT-A OF THIS ARTICLE, OR SECTION SEVENTY-THREE OF THIS
 ARTICLE THAT ALLOWS FOR THE RETAIL SALE OF ADULT-USE CANNABIS, SHALL  BE
 LOCATED  ON  THE  SAME  STREET AND WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING
 EXCLUSIVELY OCCUPIED AS A HOUSE OF WORSHIP.
   (C) THE MEASUREMENTS IN PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION ARE
 TO BE TAKEN IN STRAIGHT LINES FROM THE CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF
 THE PREMISES SOUGHT TO BE LICENSED TO THE CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE
 OF SUCH SCHOOL OR HOUSE OF WORSHIP.
   (D) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION: (I) THE  WORD  "ENTRANCE"  SHALL
 MEAN:  (A) A DOOR OF A SCHOOL REGULARLY USED TO GIVE INGRESS TO STUDENTS
 OF THE SCHOOL; (B) A DOOR OF A HOUSE OF WORSHIP REGULARLY USED  TO  GIVE
 INGRESS  TO  THE GENERAL PUBLIC ATTENDING THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP; OR (C) A
 DOOR OF THE PREMISES SOUGHT  TO  BE  LICENSED  REGULARLY  USED  TO  GIVE
 INGRESS TO CUSTOMERS OF SUCH PREMISES.
   (II) A DOOR WHICH HAS NO EXTERIOR HARDWARE, OR WHICH IS USED SOLELY AS
 AN  EMERGENCY  OR FIRE EXIT, OR FOR MAINTENANCE OR DELIVERY PURPOSES, OR
 WHICH LEADS DIRECTLY TO A PART OF  A  BUILDING  NOT  REGULARLY  USED  BY
 STUDENTS  OF  THE  SCHOOL,  THE  GENERAL  PUBLIC  ATTENDING THE HOUSE OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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