Ordinance #2024-24 – Amending Chapter 26 – Businesses for Recreational Marijuana (Cultivation, Manufacturing, and Testing)

Dover, Delaware · adopted 2025-01-02

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City of Dover CITY OF DOVER ORDINANCE #2024-24 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOVER, IN COUNCIL MET: That Chapter 26 - Businesses, Article II - Licenses, Section 26-31. - Definitions, be amended to read as follows: Sec. 26-31. Definitions. The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: Marijuana cultivation facility or cultivation facility means an entity licensed by the State of Delaware to cultivate, prepare, and package marijuana and sell marijuana to retail marijuana stores, to marijuana product manufacturing facilities, and to other marijuana cultivation facilities, but not to consumers. A marijuana cultivation facility may not produce marijuana concentrates, tinctures, extracts, or other marijuana products. Marijuana product manufacturing facility means an entity licensed by the State of Delaware to: purchase marijuana; manufacture, prepare, and package marijuana products, and sell marijuana and marijuana products to other marijuana product manufacturing facilities and retail marijuana stores, but not to consumers. Marijuana testing facility means an entity licensed by the State of Delaware to test marijuana for potency and contaminants. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED: That Appendix F - Fees and Fines, Chapter 26 - Businesses, Article II. - Licenses be amended to read as follows: Chapter 26. Businesses Fees and Fines Article II. Licenses Sec. 26-35. License required; fees Subsec. (d)(2) Manufacturers/contractors/marijuana cultivation, product manufacturing, and testing facilities rate $0.00046 of aggregate gross receipts/ Minimum fee $128.00 Ordinance #2024-24 - Amending Chapter 26, Article II, Sec. 26-31, and Appendix F Page 2 ADOPTED: January 2, 2025 SYNOPSIS This ordinance amends Chapter 26 - Businesses of the Dover Code by adding definitions of marijuana cultivation, product manufacturing, and testing facilities, and by adding these business license types to Appendix F - Fees and Fines. (SPONSORS: ANDERSON and NEIL) Action History 01/02/2025 - Council Adopted after Veto by Mayor Christiansen 12/09/2024 - Public Hearing/Final Reading - City Council 10/28/2024 - First Reading - City Council (Ordinance number changed from #2024-24A to #2024-24) 10/15/2024 - Introduction - Council Committee of the Whole/ Legislative, Finance, and Administration Committee (Split into 24A) 09/24/2024 - Council Committee of the Whole / Legislative, Finance and Administration Committee 08/05/2024 - Deferred from 06/11/2024 - Special Legislative, Finance, and Administration Committee (Split into two parts) 06/11/2024 - Introduction - Council Committee of the Whole/Legislative, Finance, and Administration Committee.