Sections
21 entriesSection 26030Establishes grounds for cannabis-license discipline, including violations of the division, regulations, state laws or taxes, knowing worker-protection violations, local cannabis ordinances, intentional…Section 26031Allows the department, after proper notice and hearing, to suspend, revoke, place on probation, fine, or otherwise discipline a cannabis license for…Section 26031.01Allows the department to suspend before hearing a cannabis license obtained by fraud, misrepresentation, deceit, or material misstatement, but not more than…Section 26031.1Allows an administrative law judge, on request, to order a violating cannabis licensee to pay reasonable investigation and enforcement costs, and bars…Section 26031.2Allows the department, with director approval, to petition the appropriate superior court for an injunction against ongoing or threatened division violations, restitution…Section 26031.5Allows the department to cite licensees and unlicensed persons, order abatement, and impose up to $5,000 per licensee violation or $30,000 per…Section 26031.6Prohibits using or possessing the cannabis universal symbol in commercial activity other than licensed commercial cannabis activity and requires records proving authorized…Section 26032Exempts from state criminal, civil-fine, seizure, and forfeiture sanctions actions by licensees, employees, and agents that are authorized by state and required…Section 26033Exempts a qualified patient from commercial-cannabis licensing when cannabis activity is exclusively for personal medical use and involves no provision, donation, sale,…Section 26034Sets a five-year deadline for the department to file disciplinary accusations after the alleged act or omission. Fraud or misrepresentation accusations are…Section 26035Requires the department director to designate employees responsible for administering and enforcing the cannabis division and to ensure that enough department employees…Section 26036Limits the division so it does not supersede or restrict existing enforcement authority of the department or other state and local agencies.…Section 26037Exempts licensees, employees, agents, and good-faith property owners from state criminal, civil-fine, seizure, and forfeiture sanctions when licensed cannabis activity is authorized…Section 26037.5Prohibits any person or entity from engaging in commercial cannabis activity without a state license issued by the department. Exempts cannabis cultivation…Section 26038Sets civil penalties for unlicensed commercial cannabis activity at up to three times the license fee per violation, capped at $30,000 for…Section 26038.1Allows a licensed cannabis business to sue an unlicensed commercial cannabis operator after showing actual harm, seeking an injunction plus either actual…Section 26039.1Requires the department to notify a licensee when cannabis is adulterated or misbranded and allows approved remediation, supervised destruction, or voluntary recall.…Section 26039.3Allows the department to embargo cannabis suspected of being adulterated, misbranded, or unlawfully sold and prohibits removal or disposal without written permission,…Section 26039.4Allows a peace officer, including a department officer, to seize cannabis, cannabis products, or industrial hemp when subject to department recall, embargo,…Section 26039.5Defines cannabis or cannabis products as misbranded when produced or held at unlicensed locations, derived from products handled at unlicensed locations, falsely…Section 26039.6Defines cannabis or cannabis products as adulterated when produced under unsanitary conditions, contaminated, decomposed, injurious, over restricted-substance limits, misrepresented in concentration or…