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Code · California · Business and Professions Code

§ 26322

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(a)A local jurisdiction shall not adopt or enforce any regulation that prohibits the retail sale by delivery within the local jurisdiction of medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers, or that otherwise has the effect of prohibiting the retail sale by delivery within the local jurisdiction of medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers by licensed medicinal cannabis businesses in a timely and readily accessible manner, and in types and quantities that are sufficient to meet demand from medicinal cannabis patients within the local jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, regulation of any of the following that has the effect of prohibiting the retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis:
(1)The number of medicinal cannabis businesses authorized to deliver medicinal cannabis in the local jurisdiction.
(2)The operating hours of medicinal cannabis businesses.
(3)The number or frequency of sales by delivery of medicinal cannabis.
(4)The types or quantities of medicinal cannabis authorized to be sold by delivery.
(5)The establishment of physical premises from which retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis within the jurisdiction is conducted by a licensed nonstorefront retailer, except that this paragraph shall not be construed to require the establishment of additional physical premises in a local jurisdiction that allowed medicinal cannabis retail as of January 1, 2022, and in which at least one physical premises engaged in the retail sale of medicinal cannabis, whether storefront or delivery, is already established.
(b)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the adoption or enforcement of reasonable regulations on retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis, including, but not limited to, reasonable regulations related to:
(1)Zoning requirements that are not inconsistent with subdivision (a). If compliance with subdivision
(a)would otherwise require a local jurisdiction to authorize a physical premises from which retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis within the jurisdiction is conducted, this paragraph shall not be construed to alter that requirement.
(2)Security or public health and safety requirements.
(3)Licensing requirements.
(4)The imposition, collection, and remittance of any applicable state or local taxes upon retail sales occurring within the local jurisdiction.
(5)Regulations consistent with requirements or restrictions imposed on cannabis businesses by this division or regulations issued under this division.
(c)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit or otherwise affect the ability of a local jurisdiction to adopt or enforce any regulations on commercial cannabis operations other than retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis in the local jurisdiction.
(d)This section shall become operative on January 1, 2024.
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