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Board endorses legal route to close unlicensed cannabis stores and approves maximum fines for flavored-vape violations
Summary
The Tompkins County Board of Health discussed using landlord-eviction provisions under New York law to close unlicensed cannabis retailers and unanimously approved enforcement penalties for flavored-vape violations and sale to underage persons at the maximum amounts allowed under state guidance.
Tompkins County officials on the Board of Health meeting discussed legal steps to shut unlicensed cannabis retailers and approved an enforcement action that set penalties for flavored-vape violations at the maximum amounts allowed under state rules.
Board members discussed pursuing eviction actions under the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL) section 715-a to force landlords to remove tenants who operate unlicensed cannabis sales. Paulia, a county legal staff member, explained the procedure: "The real property actions and proceedings law ... provides for it.…
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