Department of Cannabis Control, Text of Regulations

1 Department of Cannabis Control Medicinal and Adult Use Commercial Cannabis Regulations Page 1 of 216 Department of Cannabis Control Medicinal and Adult-Use Commercial Cannabis Regulations California Code of Regulations Title 4 Division 19. Department of Cannabis Control Table of Contents Chapter 1. All Licensees .. 10 Article 1. Division Definitions and General Requirements .. 10 15000. Definitions.. 10 General Requirements.. 16 A- and M-Designations.. 17 Premises Location.. 17 Subletting of Premises.. 18 Licensee s Responsibility for Acts of Employees and Agents.. 18 Age Restriction.. 18 Storage of Inventory.. 18 Article 2. Applications .. 19 15001. Provisional Licenses.. 19 Issuance of Provisional License.. 19 Renewal of Provisional License.. 21 Notice of Provisional License Review.

2 24 Immediate Suspension of Provisional 25 15002. Annual License Application Requirements.. 25 15003. Owners of Commercial Cannabis Businesses.. 30 15004. Financial Interest in a Commercial Cannabis Business.. 31 15005. Personnel Prohibited from Holding Licenses.. 32 15006. Premises Diagram.. 32 15007. Landowner Approval.. 35 Electronic Signature.. 35 15009. Limited Waiver of Sovereign Immunity.. 35 15010. Compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).. 37 15011. Additional Information.. 39 15012. Incomplete and Abandoned Applications.. 43 15013. Withdrawal of Application.. 43 Article 3. Licensing .. 44 Department of Cannabis Control Medicinal and Adult Use Commercial Cannabis Regulations Page 2 of 216 15014. Fees.. 44 15015. Payment of Fees.. 49 15017. Substantially Related Offenses and Criteria for Rehabilitation.

3 49 15018. Additional Grounds for Denial of a License.. 51 15019. Excessive Concentration.. 52 15020. Renewal of License.. 53 15021. Denial of License.. 55 15023. Business Modifications.. 55 15024. Death, Incapacity, or Insolvency of a Licensee.. 57 Cannabis and Cannabis Products After Termination of License.. 58 15025. Additional Premises Requirements for Retailers and Microbusinesses Authorized to Engage in Retail.. 59 15027. Physical Modification of Premises.. 60 15034. Significant Discrepancy in Inventory.. 61 15035. Notification of Criminal Acts, Civil Judgments, Violations of Labor Standards, and Revocation of a Local License, Permit, or Other Authorization After Licensure.. 61 15036. Notification of Theft, Loss, and Criminal Activity.. 62 15037. General Record Retention Requirements.

4 63 15038. Disaster Relief.. 65 Article 4. Posting and Advertising .. 67 15039. License Posting Requirement.. 67 15040. Advertising Placement.. 67 Marketing Cannabis Goods as Alcoholic Products.. 68 Branded Merchandise.. 69 Trade Samples.. 69 Designating Trade Samples.. 70 Providing Trade Samples.. 70 Requirements for Trade Samples.. 71 Consumption of Trade Samples.. 72 Trade Sample Limits.. 72 Article 5. Security Measures .. 72 15042. Premises Access Requirements.. 72 Security Plan for Licensed Manufacturers.. 73 15043. Licensee Employee Badge Requirement.. 74 Department of Cannabis Control Medicinal and Adult Use Commercial Cannabis Regulations Page 3 of 216 15044. Video Surveillance System.. 74 15045. Security Personnel.. 76 15046. Locks.. 76 15047. Alarm System.

5 76 Article 6. Track and Trace Requirements .. 77 Definitions.. 77 General Requirements.. 77 15048. Training and Credentialing.. 78 Responsibilities of the Designated Account Manager.. 78 General Tag Requirements.. 79 Ordering Tags.. 79 Tagging of Cannabis Plants.. 79 Use of Harvest Batch Name and Package 80 15049. Track and Trace Reporting.. 80 Additional Requirements for Recording Cultivation Activities.. 81 Recording Transfers of Cannabis and Cannabis Products.. 82 15050. Loss of 83 15051. Track and Trace System Reconciliation.. 83 Article 7. Acceptance or Rejection of Shipments .. 84 Acceptance or Rejection of Shipments.. 84 Chapter 2. Distributors .. 84 15300. Distribution Activities.. 84 15301. Storage Services.. 84 15302. Storage of Batches for Testing.. 85 15303.

6 Packaging, Labeling, and Rolling.. 85 Net Weight of Dried Flower.. 86 15304. Testing Arrangements.. 86 15305. Testing Sample.. 86 Re-sampling.. 87 15306. Laboratory Testing Results.. 87 15307. Quality-Assurance Review.. 88 Quality-Assurance Review for Labeling Cannabinoids and Terpenoids.. 89 Licensed Distributor to Licensed Distributor Transfers.. 89 15308. Insurance Requirements.. 89 Department of Cannabis Control Medicinal and Adult Use Commercial Cannabis Regulations Page 4 of 216 15309. Inventory Accounting.. 90 15311. Requirements for the Transportation of Cannabis Goods.. 90 15312. Required Transport Vehicle Information.. 92 15313. Transport Personnel Requirements.. 92 15314. Shipping Manifest.. 92 15315. Distributor Transport Only License.. 93 Chapter 3. Retailers .. 94 15402.

7 Customer Access to the Retail Area.. 94 15403. Hours of Operation.. 95 Requirements While Not Open for Business.. 95 15404. Retail Customers.. 95 15405. Cannabis Goods Display.. 96 15406. Cannabis Goods for 96 15407. Sale of Non- Cannabis Goods.. 97 15408. Sale of Live Plants and Seeds.. 97 15409. Daily Limits.. 97 15410. Customer Return of Cannabis Goods.. 98 15411. Free Cannabis Goods.. 98 15413. Cannabis Goods Packaging and Exit Packaging.. 99 15414. Non-Storefront Retailer.. 100 15415. Delivery Employees.. 100 Deliveries Facilitated by Technology Platforms.. 101 15416. Delivery to a Physical Address.. 102 15418. Cannabis Goods Carried During Delivery.. 103 15420. Delivery Request Receipt.. 105 15427. Retailer Premises-to-Retailer Premises Transfer.. 107 Chapter 4. Microbusiness.

8 108 15500. Microbusiness.. 108 Chapter 5. Cannabis Events .. 109 15600. Cannabis Event Organizer License.. 109 15601. Temporary Cannabis Event Requirements.. 109 15602. Temporary Cannabis Event Sales.. 111 15603. Temporary Cannabis Event Consumption.. 112 15604. Informational or Educational Cannabis Events.. 113 Department of Cannabis Control Medicinal and Adult Use Commercial Cannabis Regulations Page 5 of 216 Chapter 6. Testing Laboratories .. 113 Article 1. Chapter Definitions .. 113 15700. Definitions.. 113 Article 2. Laboratory License .. 118 15701. General Laboratory License Requirements.. 118 15702. Laboratory License Application.. 118 15703. Interim Testing Laboratory License.. 119 Article 3. Sampling Cannabis and Cannabis Products .. 121 15704. Sampling Standard Operating Procedures.

9 121 15705. General Sampling Requirements.. 121 15706. Chain of Custody (COC).. 122 15707. Harvest Batch Sampling.. 123 15708. Cannabis Product Batch and Pre-Roll Sampling.. 124 15709. Laboratory Transportation of Cannabis and Cannabis Product Samples. 125 15710. Laboratory Receipt of Samples Obtained from a Distributor or Microbusiness.. 126 Article 4. Standard Operating Procedures .. 126 15711. Laboratory Analyses Standard Operating Procedures.. 126 15712. Test Methods.. 127 15713. Validation of Test Methods.. 127 Article 5. Laboratory Testing and Reporting .. 129 15714. Required Testing.. 129 15717. Moisture Content and Water Activity Testing.. 130 15718. Residual Solvents and Processing Chemicals Testing.. 130 15719. Residual Pesticides Testing.. 132 15720. Microbial Impurities Testing.

10 135 15721. Mycotoxin Testing.. 135 15722. Foreign Material Testing.. 136 15723. Heavy Metals Testing.. 136 15724. Cannabinoid Testing.. 137 15725. Terpenoid Testing.. 138 15726. Certificate of Analysis (COA).. 139 Article 6. Post Testing Procedures .. 140 15727. Remediation and Retesting.. 140 15728. Post Testing Sample Retention.. 141 Department of Cannabis Control Medicinal and Adult Use Commercial Cannabis Regulations Page 6 of 216 Article 7. Laboratory Quality Assurance and Quality Control .. 141 15729. Laboratory Quality Assurance (LQA) Program.. 141 15730. Laboratory Quality Control (LQC) Samples.. 142 15731. Limits of Detection (LOD) and Limits of Quantitation (LOQ) for Quantitative Analyses.. 144 15732. Data Package.. 144 15733. Required Proficiency Testing.. 145 15734. Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory Proficiency Test 146 15735.