Southampton Village, NY Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

Chapter 48, Article I of the Southampton Village Code is titled Cannabis Retail Dispensary and On-Site Consumption Establishment Opt-Out and was adopted 12-23-2021 as L.L. No. 9-2021. Section 48-1 states the intent in one sentence: to opt the Village of Southampton out of hosting retail cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site cannabis consumption establishments within its boundaries. Section 48-2 names the authority, Cannabis Law § 131, which the village code describes as expressly authorizing villages to opt out of allowing those two license types to locate and operate within their boundaries.

The operative text is § 48-3. The Board of Trustees opts out of licensing and establishing both types of business, and the village also requests that the State of New York and the NYS Cannabis Control Board, or any other governmental agency authorized to issue the license, refuse to grant any license that would permit the sale or consumption of cannabis within the Village of Southampton. The village therefore asks the licensing agency to withhold the license. Chapter 48 does not set a buffer distance, hours of operation or a local permit scheme for dispensaries, because the article stops at the opt-out.

Section 48-4 is a severability clause: if a court finds a clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision or part of the article invalid or unconstitutional, the court's order is confined to that part and the remainder stands. Section 48-5 makes the article effective immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State, subject to the citizens' right to seek a permissive referendum under General Municipal Law § 24. The editor's note in the eCode360 text records that no valid petition was filed.

The article is limited to retail dispensaries and on-site consumption establishments, and it applies inside the incorporated Village of Southampton, which is a separate government from the surrounding Town of Southampton.