[Adopted 12-18-2019 by Ord. No. 19-1481]
The following words and phrases shall, for the purposes of this
article, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section,
as follows:
ADULT-USE CANNABIS CRAFT GROWER
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, dry,
cure and package cannabis and perform other necessary activities to
make cannabis available for sale at a dispensing organization or use
at a processing organization, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax
Act (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process,
transport and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and
cannabis-infused products to licensed cannabis business establishments,
per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (P.A. 101-0027), as it may
be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments
for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused
products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia or related supplies to purchasers
or to qualified registered medical cannabis patients and caregivers,
per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (P.A. 101-0027), as it may
be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS INFUSER ORGANIZATION or INFUSER
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate
cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce
a cannabis-infused product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act
(P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS PROCESSING ORGANIZATION or PROCESSOR
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to either extract
constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate
or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation
to produce a cannabis product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax
Act (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS TRANSPORTING ORGANIZATION or TRANSPORTER
An organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois
Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of a cannabis
business establishment or a community college licensed under the Community
College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program, per the Cannabis
Regulation and Tax Act (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from
time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
PERSON
Any person, firm, corporation, association, club, society
or other organization, including any owner, manager, proprietor, employee,
volunteer or agent.
The following adult-use cannabis business establishments are
prohibited in the Village of Westville. No person shall locate, operate,
own, suffer, allow to be operated or aide, abet or assist in the operation
within the Village of Westville of any of the following:
A. Adult-use cannabis craft grower.
B. Adult-use cannabis cultivation center.
C. Adult-use cannabis dispensing organization.
D. Adult-use cannabis infuser organization or infuser.
E. Adult-use cannabis processing organization or processor.
F. Adult-use cannabis transporting organization or transporter.
Operation of any prohibited cannabis business establishment
within the Village in violation of the provisions of this article
is hereby declared a public nuisance and shall be abated pursuant
to all available remedies.
Violations of this article may be enforced in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
93 of this Code.
If any provision of this article, or the application of any
provision of this article, is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid,
such occurrence shall not affect other provisions of this article,
or their application, that can be given effect without the unconstitutional
or invalid provision or its application. Each unconstitutional or
invalid provision, or application of such provision, is severable,
unless otherwise provided by this article.
This article shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and approval and publication as required by law.