Ordinance #2024-25 – Amending Chapter 26 – Businesses for Recreational Marijuana (Compassion Centers and Retail Stores)
Dover, Delaware
· adopted 2025-01-02
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City of
Dover
CITY OF DOVER ORDINANCE #2024-25
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:
Compassion center means an entity registered pursuant to §4914A of Title 16 of the
Delaware State Code that acquires, possesses, sells, supplies, or dispenses marijuana,
paraphernalia, or related supplies and educational materials to registered qualifying patients who
have designated the dispenser to cultivate marijuana for their medical use and the registered
designated caregivers of these patients.
Retail marijuana store means an entity licensed by the State of Delaware to purchase
marijuana from marijuana cultivation facilities; to purchase marijuana and marijuana products
from marijuana product manufacturing facilities; and to sell marijuana and marijuana products to
consumers.
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)(3) Merchants/bottlers/retail marijuana
stores/compassion centers rate
$0.00046 of
aggregate gross
purchases for resale/
Minimum fee $64.00
ADOPTED: January 2, 2025
Ordinance #2024-25 - Amending Chapter 26, Article II, Sec. 26-31, and Appendix F
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SYNOPSIS
This ordinance amends Chapter 26 - Businesses of the Dover Code by adding definitions of
marijuana retail stores and compassion centers, and by adding marijuana retail store and
compassion center 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 #2024-24B to
#2024-25)
10/15/2024 - Introduction - Council Committee of the Whole/ Legislative, Finance, and
Administration Committee (Split into 24B)
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.