(a) No person may engage in any commercial cannabis business or in any commercial cannabis activity within the City including cultivation, delivery manufacturing, processing, laboratory testing, transporting, dispensing, distribution, or sale of cannabis or a cannabis product unless the person: (1) has a valid commercial cannabis business permit issued by City Council; (2) has a valid Seller's Permit; and (3) is currently in compliance with all applicable state and local laws and regulations pertaining to the commercial cannabis business and the commercial cannabis activities, including the duty to obtain any required state licenses.
(b) Until Health & Safety Code Section 11362.775, subdivision (a), is repealed, the City intends that eligibility to operate collectives or cooperatives under that subdivision shall be eligible to apply for a City conditional permit to conduct commercial cannabis activities, but only to the degree those activities are authorized under state law for collectives and cooperatives. When the Health & Safety Code Section 11362.775, subdivision (a), is repealed, or as soon as collectives and cooperatives are no longer permitted to engage in commercial cannabis activity without a state license under state law, any conditional permit issued to a commercial cannabis business that has not obtained a state license for the commercial cannabis activities shall expire and shall be null and void. Such businesses shall no longer be authorized to engage in any commercial cannabis activities in the City until they obtain both a City issued commercial cannabis business permit and a state license for that commercial cannabis activity.
(§ 2, Ord. 1636-NS, eff. December 29, 2017, as amended by § 2, Ord. 1662-NS, eff. July 12, 2019)