(A) City access to premises. City officials, employees, and their designees authorized to enforce the provisions of this code shall have full access to the premises and records of every commercial cannabis business in order to:
(1) Inspect the premises for compliance with this code, the California Building Code, the California Fire Code and the state cannabis laws.
(2) Test any systems or equipment possessed by, in control of, or used by a permittee, any permittee representative, or any other agent or volunteer of a permittee.
(3) Test any cannabis or cannabis product possessed by, in control of, or used by a permittee, any permittee representative, or any other agent or volunteer of a permittee.
(4) Copy any materials, books, or records of any permittee, any permittee representative or any other agent or volunteer of a permittee.
(B) Obstruction prohibited. It is unlawful for any permittee, permittee representative or any other agent or volunteer of a permittee to impede, obstruct, interfere with, or otherwise not to allow, the city to conduct an inspection, review or copy records, recordings or other documents required to be maintained by a commercial cannabis business under this chapter or under state or local law. It is also unlawful for a person to conceal, destroy, deface, damage, or falsify any records, recordings or other documents required to be maintained by a commercial cannabis business under this chapter or under state or local law. Failure by any permittee, representative or any other agent or volunteer of a permittee to cooperate and participate in any inspection or investigation conducted under this section shall itself be a violation of this chapter.
(C) Purpose for access. City officials, employees, and their designees authorized to enforce the provisions of this code shall have rights of access under subsection (A) of this section during any inspection, investigation, review, audit, or as otherwise allowed by law.
(D) Notice not required. Prior notice of an inspection, investigation, review, or audit is not required.
(E) Time of inspection. Any inspection, investigation, review, or audit of a premises shall be conducted anytime the permittee is exercising privileges under a commercial cannabis permit issued pursuant to this chapter or as otherwise agreed to by the city and permittee.
(F) No deprivation of constitutional rights. This subsection shall not be construed to deprive a permittee, permittee representative or any other agent or volunteer of a permittee, of any privileges guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States and/or the State of California, or any other statutory privileges.
(Ord. 3321 § 3, 2020)