[Adopted 7-21-2021 by L.L. No. 5-2021]
This article is adopted pursuant to NYS Cannabis Law § 131,
which expressly authorizes the Village Board to adopt a local law
requesting the Cannabis Control Board to prohibit the establishment
of cannabis retail dispensary licenses and/or on-site consumption
licenses within the jurisdiction of the Village, subject to a permissive
referendum.
The Village Board of the Village of West Haverstraw, by this
chapter and article, hereby declares its decision to opt out from
allowing the establishment of cannabis retail dispensaries and on-site
cannabis consumption sites within the Village and requests that the
Cannabis Control Board prohibit such dispensaries and consumption
sites within the Village.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this Article
I of Chapter
88, or the application thereof to any person, firm or corporation, or circumstance, shall be ordered and adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this article or in its application to the person, individual, firm or corporation or circumstance, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or order shall be rendered.
This article and the local law by which it is adopted is subject
to a referendum on petition in accordance with Cannabis Law § 131
and the procedure outlined in Municipal Home Rule Law § 24.