[Adopted 8-10-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
This local law is adopted pursuant to Cannabis Law § 131,
which expressly authorizes cities and villages to opt-out of allowing
retail cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site cannabis consumption establishments
to locate and operate within their boundaries.
This Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Floral
Park, County of Nassau, hereby opts out of licensing and establishing
retail cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site cannabis consumption establishments
within its boundaries.
If a court determines that any clause, sentence, paragraph,
subdivision, or part of this local law or the application thereof
to any person, firm or corporation, or circumstance is invalid or
unconstitutional, the court's order or judgment shall not affect,
impair, or invalidate the remainder of this local law, but shall be
confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,
or part of this local law 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 local law shall take effect immediately upon filing with
the Secretary of State. Pursuant to Cannabis Law § 131,
this local law is subject to a permissive referendum and thus may
not be filed with the Secretary of State until the applicable time
period has elapsed to file a petition or a referendum has been conducted
approving this local law.