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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 2605 - Amend Title 6; Cannabis RetailersORDINANCE NO. 2605 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDDING AMENDING TITLE 6 (BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS), CHAPTER 6.12 (CANNABIS) BY AMENDING SECTION 6.12.180 (CANNABIS BUSINESS SECURITY) AND SECTION 6.12.560 (MICROBUSINESSES) IN ORDER TO CLARIFY THE DISPLAY OF IDENTIFICATION BADGES AND TO EXEMPT FROM THE COMPETITIVE APPLICATION PROCESS REQUIRED OF MICROBUSINESS APPLICANTS THOSE APPLICANTS WHO HAVE ALREADY QUALIFIED AS CANNABIS RETAILERS AND THOSE WHO WILL NOT OPERATE A RETAIL COMPONENT AS PART OF THE MICROBUSINESS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Title 6 (Business Taxes, Licenses, and Regulations), Chapter 6.12 (Cannabis), Section 6.12.180, is hereby amended to read as follows: 6.12.180 - Cannabis business security. A. All persons on the site of a cannabis business, except for employees and those doing business with the cannabis business, must be escorted at all times by the licensee or employee of the cannabis business when in the limited -access area of the premises. B. All agents, officers, employees or other persons acting for, or employed by, a licensee shall display an identification badge issued by the licensee at all times while on site at the cannabis business. C. A cannabis business shall have an operational video surveillance system that meets the standards of operation, storage, and surveillance set forth in Section 5044 of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations. D. Surveillance recordings shall be kept for a minimum of ninety (90) days and shall be subject to inspection and copy by the City of Redding. Recordings shall be kept in a manner that permits the City of Redding to view and obtain copies of the recordings at the licensed premises immediately upon request. E. All cannabis retailers shall retain and deploy security personnel in accordance with Section 5045 of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations. F. Licensees shall ensure that the limited access areas of the cannabis business, as defined in Section 5401 of the California Code of Regulations, can be securely locked using commercial -grade, nonresidential door locks. A licensee shall also use commercial- grade, nonresidential door locks on all points of entry and exit to the licensed premises. G. Licensees shall maintain an alarm system in accordance with Section 5047 of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations and make available to the City of Redding all information related to the alarm system, monitoring, and alarm activity. H. In the event that a licensee is delivering tax proceeds to the City of Redding in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the licensee shall either procure licensed, armed transport to the city treasurer or shall deliver said tax proceeds to armed transport retained by the City of Redding. If the City of Redding procures armed transport of tax proceeds, the licensee shall pay to the City of Redding within thirty (30) calendar days of the date of the invoice all invoices for such service. Section 2. Title 6 (Business Taxes, Licenses, and Regulations), Chapter 6.12 (Cannabis), Section 6.12.560 is hereby amended to read as follows: 6.12.560 - Microbusinesses A. An application for a microbusiness license shall indicate on the application for licensure which commercial cannabis activities the applicant intends to engage in. Microbusinesses having a retail cannabis component shall be licensed in the same manner as retail cannabis businesses. A retail cannabis licensee seeking to be licensed as a microbusiness shall not be required to undergo additional competitive selection pursuant to Section 6.12.400. B. Licensees operating a microbusiness shall comply with all requirements set forth in this Chapter which relate to the commercial cannabis activities authorized by the microbusiness license. C. A licensee operating a microbusiness shall comply with Sections 5500 through 5507 of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations. Section 3. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance. The City Council of the City of Redding hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases may be held invalid or unconstitutional. Section 4. The passage of this Ordinance is not a "project" according to the definition in the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"), and therefore is not subject to the provisions requiring environmental review. Pursuant to the Statutory Exemption set forth in subdivision (h) of Business and Professions Code section 26055, this Ordinance is exempt from the provisions requiring environmental review because it requires discretionary review under CEQA to approve licenses to engage in commercial cannabis activity within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Redding. Section 5. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption, and the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption thereof and cause its publication according to law. 2 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced and read by the City Council of the City of Redding at a regular meeting on the 21 st day of May, 2019, and was duly read and adopted at a regular meeting on the 4th day of June, 2019, by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ATTEST: COUNCIL MEMBERS: McElvain, Resner, Schreder, and Winter COUNCIL MEMBERS: None COUNCIL MEMBERS: Dacquisto COUNCIL MEMBERS: None PAMELA MIZE, City erk 3 JULIE )}WINTER, Mayor FORM APPROVED: -�a- A64�� - BARRY E. eWAL , City Attorney