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NY A09472
Bill
Status
3/9/2016
Primary Sponsor
Pamela Harris
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AI Summary
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Prohibits establishment, approval, maintenance, or continuation of methadone treatment centers within 500 feet of public or private secondary schools, elementary schools, day-care centers, parks, churches, synagogues, or other places of worship, unless the center is located within a hospital
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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
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Defines "entrance" as doors regularly used for ingress by students, parents, children, the general public, or patients being treated, with special provisions for facilities set back from public thoroughfares
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Excludes emergency exits, fire exits, maintenance-only doors, and doors leading solely to non-public building areas from the entrance definition
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
3/9/2016