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POSSIBLE MARIJUANA FACILITY REQUIREMENTS
Legal Dept. 5/19/14
DISPENSARY REGULATIONS
A. Site Regulations:
• Ventilation and filtration system required (so does not leave premises)
• Full-time outside lighting of entrances and exits (so you required video cameras can be
effective)
• No co-location with marijuana social clubs or smoking clubs
B. Operations Regulations:
Require special City dispensary license (see City pawnbroker and liquor license
ordinances)
o Fee for City license investigation/processing
o Initial fire and building inspections, including ventilation and filtration system
o Dispensary employee and financier background checks and fingerprints (state
now requires only for licensee)
o Attestation that the current fees and taxes owed have been paid
o Approved accounting system
• Prescribed cash accounting system
• Prescribed inventory record-keeping
■ Prescribed (perhaps daily) financial reporting
• Require annual renewal of City dispensary license
o APD review (see City liquor license ordinance)
o Comm Dev review for compliance with Site Regulations
• Require permission for unannounced periodic inspections
o Financial and inventory audits
o Fire and building inspections, including inspection of ventilation filtration
system
o APD inspections for compliance with state and local regulations
o APD access to video surveillance tapes on request
o Periodic testing of wastewater for chemical concentrations
• Prohibitions
o On-site production of cannabis oils
o Minors or non-cardholders in building housing dispensary and its yard area
o Smoking/combustion inside dispensary
GROW-SITE REGULATIONS
• Testing of discharges into sewer system for excess fertilizer
• Prohibit booby-traps
• Not visible from public property
OTHER
• Strengthen injunctive relief for code violations
• Individual right of action for nuisance (odors from grow sites or dispensaries)(see solar
access ordinance)