N.Y. Cannabis Law § 63: Fees

§ 63. Fees. 1. The board shall have the authority to charge applicants

for licensure under this article a non-refundable application fee. Such

fee may be based on the type of licensure sought, cultivation and/or

production volume, or any other factors deemed reasonable and

appropriate by the board to achieve the policy and purpose of this

chapter.

1-a. (a) In addition to any other fee authorized by this chapter,

there shall be a special licensing fee for a registered organization

adult-use cultivator processor, distributor retail dispensary license

issued pursuant to section sixty-eight-a of this article. Such fee shall

be used to fund social and economic equity and incubator assistance

pursuant to this article and paragraph (c) of subdivision three of

section ninety-nine-ii of the state finance law.

(b) For purposes of this subdivision, "co-located adult-use retail

dispensary" shall mean an adult-use retail dispensary operated by a

registered organization at one of such registered organization's medical

dispensary premises pursuant to section sixty-eight-a of this article.

(c) Such special fee shall be paid as follows:

(i) three million dollars at the time the registered organization

adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary license is

issued;

(ii) four million dollars within one hundred eighty days of the

opening of the licensee's second co-located adult-use retail dispensary;

(iii) four million dollars within thirty days of the first one hundred

million dollars in revenue generated by the registered organization

adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary; and

(iv) four million dollars within thirty days of the second one hundred

million dollars in revenue generated by the registered organization

adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary.

(d) Provided, however, that the board shall not allow registered

organizations to dispense adult-use cannabis from more than three of

their medical cannabis dispensing locations. The timing and manner in

which registered organizations may be granted such authority shall be

determined by the board in regulation.

(e) Failure to make any payment required by paragraph (c) of this

subdivision will result in the suspension of the registered

organization's authority to operate co-located adult-use dispensaries

until such payment is acknowledged by the office.

(f) Failure to make any payment required by paragraph (c) of this

subdivision will result, in the event of the expiration of the license,

in a denial of the renewal of the license.

(g) In the event that a registered organization adult-use cultivator

processor distributor retail dispensary license expires, or is

cancelled, revoked or otherwise terminated, the registered organization

shall not be required to make any payments required by this subdivision

that become due after the date of such expiration, cancellation,

revocation or other termination of the license.

(h) A registered organization adult-use cultivator processor

distributor retail dispensary license approved or issued pursuant to the

provisions of section sixty-eight-a of this article prior to the

effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-five

that added this paragraph shall be subject to the amendments made by

such chapter.

* (i) The office shall determine the special license fees due, if any,

for any co-located adult-use dispensaries operating on the effective

date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-five that added

this paragraph, provided that:

(i) any payment made prior to such effective date by a registered

organization shall be credited as a payment toward any fee due or that

shall become due under this subdivision, as amended by the chapter of

the laws of two thousand twenty-five; and

(ii) if there is a balance due for a co-located adult-use dispensary

upon such effective date, after applying the credit provided for in this

paragraph, the office shall determine the timing and manner by which

such balance shall be paid by the registered organization.

* NB Repealed February 3, 2026

2. The board shall have the authority to charge licensees a biennial

license fee. Such fee shall be based on the amount of cannabis to be

cultivated, processed, distributed and/or dispensed by the licensee or

the gross annual receipts of the licensee for the previous license

period, and any other factors deemed reasonable and appropriate by the

board.

3. The board shall waive or reduce fees pursuant to this section for

social and economic equity applicants.