2021 New York Laws
CAN - Cannabis
Article 4 - Adult-Use Cannabis
76 - Notification to Municipalities of Adult-Use Retail Dispensary or On-Site Consumption License.

§ 76. Notification to municipalities of adult-use retail dispensary or
on-site  consumption license. 1. Not less than thirty days nor more than
two hundred seventy days before filing an application for  licensure  as
an  adult-use  retail  dispensary  or  registered organization adult-use
cultivator  processor  distributor  retail  dispensary  or  an   on-site
consumption  licensee,  an  applicant  shall  notify the municipality in
which the premises is located of such applicant's intent to file such an
application.
  2. Such notification shall be made to the clerk of the  village,  town
or  city,  as  the  case  may  be,  wherein the premises is located. For
purposes of this section:
  (a) notification need only be given to the clerk of a village when the
premises is located within the boundaries of the village; and
  (b) in the city of New York, the community board established  pursuant
to  section  twenty-eight  hundred  of  the  New  York city charter with
jurisdiction over the area in which the premises  is  located  shall  be
considered  the  appropriate  public body to which notification shall be
given.
  3. Such notification shall be made in such form as shall be prescribed
by the rules of the board.
  4. When a city, town, or village, and in New  York  city  a  community
board,  expresses  an  opinion  for  or  against  the  granting  of such
registration, license or permit application, any such opinion  shall  be
deemed part of the record upon which the office makes its recommendation
to  the  board  to  grant  or  deny  the application and the board shall
respond in writing to such city, town, village or community  board  with
an  explanation  of  how  such opinion was considered in the granting or
denial of an application.
  5. Such notification shall be made  by:  (a)  certified  mail,  return
receipt requested; (b) overnight delivery service with proof of mailing;
or  (c)  personal  service  upon  the  offices of the clerk or community
board.
  6. The board shall require such notification to be on  a  standardized
form  that  can  be  obtained on the internet or from the board and such
notification to include:
  (a) the trade name or  "doing  business  as"  name,  if  any,  of  the
establishment;
  (b) the full name of the applicant;
  (c)  the  street  address  of  the  establishment, including the floor
location or room number, if applicable;
  (d) the mailing address of the establishment, if  different  than  the
street address;
  (e)  the  name,  address  and  telephone  number  of  the  attorney or
representative of the applicant, if any;
  (f) a statement indicating whether the application is for:
  (i) a new establishment;
  (ii) a transfer of an existing licensed business;
  (iii) a renewal of an existing license; or
  (iv) an alteration of an existing licensed premises;
  (g)  if  the  establishment  is  a  transfer  or  previously  licensed
premises,  the  name  of  the old establishment and such establishment's
registration or license number;
  (h)  in  the  case  of  a  renewal  or  alteration  application,   the
registration or license number of the applicant; and
  (i) the type of license.