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NY A05225
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/21/2013
Primary Sponsor
Matthew Titone
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AI Summary
- Prohibits methadone treatment centers from being established, approved, maintained, or continued within 500 feet of schools (secondary level and below), day-care centers, parks, churches, synagogues, or other places of worship unless located in a hospital
- Requires distance measurements to be taken in a straight line from the center of the nearest entrance of the protected facility to the center of the nearest entrance of the methadone treatment center
- Defines "entrance" as doors regularly used for ingress by students, parents, children, worshippers, or patients; includes walkways or stairs for facilities set back from public thoroughfares
- Excludes from the definition of entrance any doors without exterior hardware, emergency/fire exits, maintenance-only doors, or doors leading to areas not regularly used by patients
- Takes effect seven months after enactment
Legislative Description
Regulates the establishment and location of a methadone treatment center by prohibiting its establishment or continued operation within five hundred feet of an educational institution at the secondary level or below, day care center, park, church, synagogue or other place of worship unless located within a hospital.
Last Action
referred to mental health
1/8/2014
Committee Referrals
Mental Health2/21/2013
Full Bill Text
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