§ 72 — Adult-use retail dispensary license

New York § 72

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law CAN: Cannabis
• Art. 4: Adult-use Cannabis

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§ 72. Adult-use retail dispensary license. 1. A retail dispensary\nlicense shall authorize the acquisition, possession, sale and delivery\nof cannabis from the licensed premises of the retail dispensary by such\nlicensee to cannabis consumers.\n 2. No person may have a direct or indirect financial or controlling\ninterest in more than three adult-use retail dispensary licenses issued\npursuant to this chapter.\n 3. No person holding a retail dispensary license may also hold an\nadult-use cultivation, processor, microbusiness, cooperative or\ndistributor license pursuant to this article or be registered as a\nregistered organization pursuant to article three of this chapter,\nexcept for such organizations licensed pursuant to sections\nsixty-eight-a and sixty-eight-b of this article.\n 4. No retail license shall be granted for any premises, unless the\napplicant shall be the owner thereof, or shall be able to demonstrate\npossession of the premises within thirty days of final approval of the\nlicense through a lease, management agreement or other agreement giving\nthe applicant control over the premises, in writing, for a term not less\nthan the license period.\n 5. With the exception of delivery or microbusiness licensees, no\npremises shall be licensed to sell cannabis products, unless said\npremises shall be located in a store, the principal entrance to which\nshall be from the street level and located on a public thoroughfare in\npremises which may be occupied, operated or conducted for business,\ntrade or industry.\n 6. No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront within five\nhundred feet of a school grounds as such term is defined in the\neducation law or within two hundred feet of a house of worship.\n