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Assembly Bill A8927

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits licensees from placing a storefront within five hundred feet of certain areas

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2025-A8927 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §72, Cannabis L

2025-A8927 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits licensees from placing a storefront within five hundred feet of certain areas including child day care centers, or public parks and playgrounds.

2025-A8927 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8927
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PIROZZOLO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting  retail
   licensees  from  placing  a  storefront  within  five  hundred feet of
   certain areas
 
   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 amended
 to read as follows:
   6. No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront  within  five
 hundred  feet  of a school grounds as such term is defined in the educa-
 tion law, A CHILD DAY CARE CENTER AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (C) OF  SUBDI-
 VISION ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW, A
 PUBLIC  PARK  OR  A PLAYGROUND, or within two hundred feet of a house of
 worship. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, A "PUBLIC  PARK"  SHALL  MEAN
 ANY  PARK, PLAYGROUND, OR OTHER RECREATIONAL AREA UNDER THE JURISDICTION
 OF THE STATE OR ANY OF ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS, THAT IS ACCESSIBLE TO
 THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND DESIGNATED AS A PARK BY THE RELEVANT GOVERNMENTAL
 AUTHORITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13394-01-5

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