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NY A03070
Bill
Status
1/22/2015
Primary Sponsor
Matthew Titone
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AI Summary
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Prohibits establishment, approval, or continued operation of methadone treatment centers within 500 feet of secondary schools, elementary schools, day-care centers, parks, churches, synagogues, or other places of worship unless located within a hospital
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Measures distance 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
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Defines "entrance" as doors regularly used for ingress by students, parents, children, the public, or patients; includes walkways or stairs for facilities set back from public thoroughfares
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Excludes emergency exits, fire exits, maintenance doors, and doors leading to areas not regularly used by treatment patients from the definition of "entrance"
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Takes effect seven months after becoming law
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
enacting clause stricken
3/9/2016