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- Referred to mental health and developmental disabilities
- Referred to mental health and developmental disabilities
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Regulates the establishment and location of methadone treatment centers
In Assembly Committee · Alcoholism And Drug Abuse · Sponsor Alan Maisel
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Title of bill
An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the location of methadone treatment centers
Purpose or general idea of bill
To relocate methadone treatment centers from the public or private educational institutions at the secondary level or below, day care center, church, synagogue or other place of worship unless located in a hospital.
Summary of specific provisions
To relocate methadone treatment centers which are within a radius of five hundred feet from the public and/or private educational institution at the secondary level or below, day care center, church, synagogue, or other place of worship unless located in a hospital. The distance shall be taken in a straight line from the center of the above mentioned places to the center of the nearest entrance of such methadone treatment center.
Effects of present law which this bill would alter
The Mental Hygiene Law is amended by adding a new section 22.13.
Justification
The present existence of methadone treatment centers has distinct consequences upon the community, students, the parents and children of day care centers, and the general public attending their places of worship. Very often the problems of loitering and vandalism accompany the presence of methadone treatment centers. The relocation of these treatment centers would benefit the community in that the negative influences associated with them would not be felt by a vulnerable portion of the public.
Prior legislative history
S.2504 of 2007 02/06/07 Referred to Health
Effective date
This act shall take effect seven months after it shall have become law.
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