New York S 9426: Relates to proximity restrictions for adult-use cannabis retail dispensaries and on-site consumption licenses

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S09426 Summary:

BILL NOS09426 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBYNOE

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COSPNSRADDABBO, COMRIE, MYRIE, STAVISKY, SUTTON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§72 & 77, Cannabis L

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Relates to proximity restrictions for adult-use cannabis retail dispensaries and on-site consumption licenses; provides that such dispensaries shall not be located within 500 feet of a public library or an association library.

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BILL NOS09426 

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03/11/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9426

 IN SENATE

 March 11, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BYNOE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
 ment Operations

 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to proximity restrictions
 for adult-use cannabis retail dispensaries and on-site consumption
 licenses

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 72 of the cannabis law, as added
 2 by chapter 2 of the laws of 2026, is amended to read as follows:
 3 6. (a) No premises with a license issued pursuant to this section, or
 4 section sixty-eight-a of this article, or section seventy-three of this
 5 article that allows for the retail sale of adult-use cannabis, shall be
 6 located on the same street and within five hundred feet of a building
 7 containing a school or a building containing a public library or associ-
 8 ation library.
 9 (b) No premises with a license issued pursuant to this section, or
 10 section sixty-eight-a of this article, or section seventy-three of this
 11 article that allows for the retail sale of adult-use cannabis, shall be
 12 located on the same street and within two hundred feet of a building
 13 exclusively occupied as a house of worship.
 14 (c) The measurements in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision are
 15 to be taken in straight lines from the center of the nearest entrance of
 16 the premises sought to be licensed to the center of the nearest entrance
 17 of such school, public library or association library, or house of
 18 worship.
 19 (d) For purposes of this subdivision: (i) The word "entrance" shall
 20 mean: (A) a door of a school regularly used to give ingress to students
 21 of the school; (B) a door of a house of worship regularly used to give
 22 ingress to the general public attending the house of worship; [or] (C) a
 23 door of a public library or association library regularly used to give
 24 ingress to the general public; or (D) a door of the premises sought to
 25 be licensed regularly used to give ingress to customers of such prem-
 26 ises.
 27 (ii) A door which has no exterior hardware, or which is used solely as
 28 an emergency or fire exit, or for maintenance or delivery purposes, or
 29 which leads directly to a part of a building not regularly used by

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14526-06-6

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 1 students of the school, the general public attending the house of
 2 worship, the general public entering a public library or association
 3 library, or customers of the premises sought to be licensed, is not
 4 deemed an "entrance".
 5 (iii) If the school, public library, association library, house of
 6 worship or premises sought to be licensed is set back from a public
 7 thoroughfare, the walkway or stairs leading to any such door shall be
 8 deemed an entrance; and the measurement shall be taken to the center of
 9 the walkway or stairs at the point where it meets the building line or
 10 public thoroughfare.
 11 (e)(i) For purposes of paragraph (b) of this subdivision, a building
 12 occupied as a house of worship does not cease to be "exclusively" occu-
 13 pied as such by incidental uses that are not of a nature to detract from
 14 the predominant character of the building as a house of worship.
 15 (ii) Such uses include, but are not limited to: (A) the conduct of
 16 legally author