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Senate Bill S1769

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits new cannabis dispensaries from opening up within a certain distance from other licensed cannabis dispensaries

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2025-S1769 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §72, Cannabis L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5887

2025-S1769 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits new cannabis dispensaries from opening up within five hundred feet of other licensed cannabis dispensaries; provides an exception if the location of such premises is in the public interest.

2025-S1769 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1769 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1769
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. FERNANDEZ, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Investi-
   gations and Government Operations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to prohibiting new canna-
   bis dispensaries from opening up within a certain distance from  other
   licensed cannabis dispensaries
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 72 of the cannabis law is amended by adding  a  new
 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  (A) NO CANNABIS RETAIL LICENSEE APPLICANT SHALL SUBMIT AN APPLICA-
 TION TO LOCATE A STOREFRONT IN A CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE  HAVING  A  POPU-
 LATION  OF TWENTY THOUSAND OR MORE WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF AN EXIST-
 ING PREMISES LICENSED AND OPERATING PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE OR  ARTICLE
 THREE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   (B)  THE  MEASUREMENT  IN  PARAGRAPH  (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL 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 PREMISES LICENSED AND OPERATING PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE OR ARTICLE
 THREE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   (C) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF  THIS  SUBDIVI-
 SION,  THE  CANNABIS  CONTROL BOARD MAY ISSUE A LICENSE PURSUANT TO THIS
 SECTION FOR A PREMISES WHICH SHALL BE WITHIN FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET  OF  AN
 EXISTING  PREMISES  LICENSED  AND  OPERATING PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE OR
 ARTICLE THREE OF THIS CHAPTER IF, AFTER CONSULTATION WITH  THE  CANNABIS
 CONTROL BOARD, SUCH BOARD DETERMINES THAT GRANTING SUCH LICENSE WOULD BE
 IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST. BEFORE IT MAY ISSUE ANY SUCH LICENSE, THE CANNA-
 BIS  CONTROL BOARD SHALL CONDUCT A HEARING, UPON NOTICE TO THE APPLICANT
 AND THE MUNICIPALITY OR COMMUNITY BOARD WHERE THE PROPOSED  PREMISES  IS
 LOCATED  AND  SHALL  STATE  AND FILE IN ITS OFFICE ITS REASONS THEREFOR.
 NOTICE TO THE MUNICIPALITY OR COMMUNITY BOARD SHALL MEAN WRITTEN  NOTICE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05185-01-5

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