5408.1 The application for a director, officer, member, incorporator, or agent registration shall include:

1. (a) Written statements or evidence establishing to the satisfaction of the Board that the applicant meets all of the registration qualifications; and
2. (b) An individual who has been approved by the Board as a director, officer, member, incorporator, or agent shall not be required to register as an employee or manager. However, nothing in this subsection shall obviate the requirement in Subsection 5604.1 that in the absence of an owner, a licensed medical cannabis business is required to have a Board-approved manager present at the licensed establishment during the hours that the licensed medical cannabis business is open.

5408.2 An applicant for a non-profit or for-profit corporation, partnership, or limited liability company shall identify all of its directors, officers, members, or incorporators on its registration application. An applicant for a medical cannabis business may submit simultaneously registration applications for individual directors, officers, members, incorporators and agents at the time its medical cannabis business registration application is filed.

5408.3 During the pendency of the public emergency issued by the Mayor in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an owner of a licensed medical cannabis business may request that the Board issue a temporary registration card to an agent valid for forty-five (45) days provided, that the following information is provided:

1. (a) A completed facility employment application for the prospective agent;
2. (b) A written statement from the medical cannabis business attesting that the agent has been selected to work at their facility; and
3. (c) A signed attestation from the prospective agent confirming that he or she:
4. (1) Has not been convicted of a crime of violence, a gun offense, tax evasion, fraud, or credit card fraud within the three (3) years prior to filing the application; and
5. (2) Has not previously had their authority to participate in the Medical Cannabis Program revoked by Department of Health or the Board.

SOURCE: Emergency and Third Proposed Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 3299 (April 15, 2011)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Emergency and Fourth Proposed Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 7207 (August 12, 2011)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 10128, 10194 (December 2, 2011); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 66 DCR 10217 (August 9, 2019); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 71 DCR 002388 (March 8, 2024); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 73 DCR 002136 (February 20, 2026).