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Code · Arizona · Title 36 — Public Contracts

36-2803.01. New dispensary registration certificates; issuance; priority; requirements; definition

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(Added with a 1998 Prop. 105 clause pursuant to L19, Ch. 318)
A. Beginning on April 1, 2020, the department shall issue all new nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary registration certificates in the following order of priority based on the dispensary's geographic area as described in the registration certificate application:
1. The geographic area had a registered nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary move from the geographic area and the geographic area is at least twenty-five miles from another dispensary that has been issued a dispensary registration certificate.
2. The geographic area is at least twenty-five miles from another dispensary that has been issued a dispensary registration certificate.
3. According to rule, if there are no dispensary registration certificate applications as described in paragraph 1 or 2 of this subsection.
B. If the department receives multiple applications as described in subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section from previously approved nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary locations, the department shall approve the certificate for the application that serves the most qualifying patients within five miles of the proposed dispensary location. If the department receives multiple applications as described in subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section or if there are no applications from previously approved dispensary locations, the department may issue the registration certificate by random drawing.
C. A nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary that receives a registration certificate pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 of this section on or after April 1, 2020 must open the dispensary at the approved location within eighteen months after the application is approved or the registration certificate becomes invalid.
D. A nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary that is issued a registration certificate pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 of this section may relocate only as follows:
1. If the dispensary is located within a city or town, only within that city or town.
2. If the dispensary is located within an unincorporated area, only within the unincorporated area of the county where the dispensary is located but not within twenty-five miles from another dispensary that has been issued a dispensary registration certificate.
E. For the purposes of this section, "geographic area" means a city, town or unincorporated area of a county.
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