This chapter shall be known as the "Marijuana Cultivation and
Distribution Ordinance."
Fees shall be established annually by the City Council following
a public hearing.
The City Council, due to the importance of life safety to all,
and because a number of individuals are surreptitiously growing, cultivating,
harvesting, managing, processing, transferring, exchanging or distributing
marijuana or marijuana products within its boundaries, expressly intends
that this chapter be applied retroactively to January 1, 2016. Any
party who commenced growing, cultivating, harvesting, managing, processing,
transferring, exchanging or distributing marijuana or marijuana products
after January 1, 2016, but prior to the date of the enactment of this
chapter must register for a license, but fees for its first license
will be waived if the party can substantially establish that it was
engaged in growing, cultivating, harvesting, managing, processing,
transferring, exchanging or distributing marijuana or marijuana products
prior to enactment of this chapter.
If any portion of this chapter is held to be invalid, the remainder
of the chapter shall remain in full force and effect, it being the
City Council's intention that these provisions be severable to the
greatest extent allowed by law.