diff --git a/cpp/src/sampling/neighbor_sampling_impl.hpp b/cpp/src/sampling/neighbor_sampling_impl.hpp
index a49102ea7ad..3bf569956d8 100644
--- a/cpp/src/sampling/neighbor_sampling_impl.hpp
+++ b/cpp/src/sampling/neighbor_sampling_impl.hpp
@@ -69,13 +69,6 @@ neighbor_sample_impl(
   raft::random::RngState& rng_state,
   bool do_expensive_check)
 {
-#ifdef NO_CUGRAPH_OPS  // FIXME: this is relevant only when edge_bias_view.has_value() is false,
-                       // this ifdef statement will be removed once we migrate relevant cugraph-ops
-                       // functions to cugraph
-  CUGRAPH_FAIL(
-    "neighbor_sample_impl not supported in this configuration, built with NO_CUGRAPH_OPS");
-#else
-  static_assert(std::is_floating_point_v<bias_t>);
 
   if (fan_out) {
     CUGRAPH_EXPECTS((*fan_out).size() > 0,