6034290 Resolution 21-479, Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center Expansion Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

21-479

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

May 3, 2016

               

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1999 to allow any applicant that received notification on July 25, 2014, that its medical marijuana cultivation center was eligible for registration to modify its application, to allow a holder of a cultivation center registration that owns or has a valid lease for the real property adjacent to its existing cultivation center to expand its facility into that adjacent real property for purposes of increasing production of marijuana plants, not to exceed the authorized limit, and to increase the number of living plants a cultivation center may possess at any time to 1,000.

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center Expansion Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2. (a)  This emergency is necessary to allow holders of cultivation center registrations that own or have valid leases for the real property immediately adjacent to, and located within the same physical structure as, their existing cultivation centers to expand their facilities into that adjacent real property for purposes of increasing production not to exceed the authorized limit. This emergency will also increase the number of living plants medical marijuana cultivation centers may possess at any time to 1,000.

(b) Pursuant to the Medical Marijuana Expansion Emergency Amendment Act of 2014, effective July 29, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-396; 61 DCR 8255), and the Medical Marijuana Expansion Temporary Amendment Act of 2014, effective February 26, 2015 (D.C. Law 20-163; 61 DCR 10753), the District increased the number of plants that a cultivation center could possess from 95 to 500 plants.

(c) To accommodate this growth, the District’s cultivation centers must increase production, which for some registrants may necessitate expanding the physical size of their facilities, and for all facilities will require the ability to possess more than the current allotment of 500 living plants at any time.   

 

 

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center Expansion Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.