A. The City Council shall adopt by resolution the procedures to govern the application process for issuance of a Commercial Cannabis Business Permit. The resolution shall authorize the City Manager to prepare the necessary forms, and adopt any necessary rules, regulations and processes concerning the applications and the application process.
B. Any person seeking to obtain a Commercial Cannabis Business Permit shall submit a written application to the City, signed under penalty of perjury, using the form approved by the City for that purpose. The application shall be accompanied by a non-refundable application fee established by resolution of the City Council, to defray the costs incurred by the City in the application process set forth in this Chapter.
C. As part of the application process, the Applicant shall be required to obtain all required land use approvals from the City's Community Development Department, including a certification from the Community Development Director certifying that the business is a permitted use in the zone where it is located, and the proposed premises meets all the requirements of Title 17 of this Code.
D. Any person intending to open and to operate a commercial cannabis business shall provide sufficient evidence of the legal right to occupy and to use the proposed premises. In the event the proposed premises will be leased from another person, the applicant shall be required to provide a signed and notarized statement from the owner of the property, in a form approved by the City, acknowledging that the property owner has read this Chapter and consents to the operation of the commercial cannabis business on the owner's property.
E. Background check. Pursuant to §§ 11105(b)(11) and 13300(b)(11) of the California Penal Code, which authorizes city authorities to access state and local summary criminal history information for employment, licensing, or certification purposes, and authorizes access to federal level criminal history information by transmitting fingerprint images and related information to the Department of Justice to be transmitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, every applicant, owner, manager and responsible person of the commercial cannabis business must submit fingerprints and other information deemed necessary by the Chief of Police for a background check by the Culver City Police Department. No applicant shall be issued a Commercial Cannabis Business Permit unless the applicant, owner, manager and responsible person have first cleared the background check, as determined by the Chief of Police, as required by this section. A fee for the cost of the background investigation, which shall be the actual cost to the City to conduct the background investigation as it deems necessary and appropriate, shall be paid at the time the application for a Commercial Cannabis Business Permit is submitted.
(Ord. No. 17-018 § 2 (part); Ord. No. 2017-020 § 2 (part); Ord. No. 2018-007 § 2 (part))