5610.1 A medical cannabis business shall be required to operate and maintain in good working order a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) days a week, a closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system on the premises that complies with the following minimum standards:

(a) Visually records and monitors all building entrances and exits, all parking lot areas, rear alley areas immediately adjacent to the building, and covers the entire inside of the facility, including all limited access areas, and including all areas where medical cannabis is cultivated, stored, dispensed, tested, or destroyed. Fixed cameras shall be installed to provide a consistent recorded image of these areas. The medical cannabis business shall instruct the company or individuals installing the surveillance cameras to maximize the quality of facial and body images and to avoid backlighting and physical obstructions;

(b) Cameras installed outdoors and in low-light interior areas shall be day/night cameras with a minimum resolution of six hundred (600) lines per inch (analog) or D1 (IP) and a minimum light factor requirement of seven tenths (0.7) LUX. The installation of additional lighting may be required to increase picture clarity and brightness. Cameras shall be calibrated and focused to maximize the quality of the recorded image;

(c) The recording device shall be a digital video recorder that displays a date and time stamp on all recorded video;

(d) A display monitor with a minimum screen size of twelve inches (12 in.) shall be connected to the electronic recording security system at all times;

(e) Electronic recording security systems are required to be maintained in good working order at all times. The owner of a medical cannabis business shall instruct each manager, employee, or agent overseeing the functioning of the video recording security system to immediately report any malfunctioning or technical problems with the system;

(f) Security recordings shall meet the following minimum requirements:

(1) The recorded image resolution shall be at least D1; and

(2) The recorded image frame rate shall be at least three (3) frames per second during alarm or motion based recording.

(g) Security recordings shall be retained by the medical cannabis business for a minimum of thirty (30) days. The recording system for the security cameras must be located in a locked, tamper-proof compartment. A medical cannabis business shall be prohibited from taping over existing security video from the last thirty (30) days; and

(h) Upon request, the security recording shall be made available within forty-eight (48) hours to MPD, the Board, or an ABCA investigator.

5610.2 A medical cannabis business shall install, maintain, and use a professionally monitored robbery and burglary alarm system; which meets the following requirements:

(a) The control panel shall be a UL listed burglar alarm control panel;

(b) The system shall report to a UL listed central monitoring station;

(c) A test signal shall be transmitted to the central station every twenty-four (24) hours;

(d) At a minimum, the system shall provide coverage of all facility entrances and exits, rooms with exterior windows, rooms with exterior walls or walls shared with other facility tenants, roof hatches, skylights, and storage room(s) that contain safe(s);

(e) The system shall include at least one (1) holdup alarm for staff use; and

(f) The system shall be inspected, and all devices tested annually by a qualified alarm vendor.

5610.3 A medical cannabis business shall maintain for a period of three (3) years reports of incidents that triggered an alarm. Such reports shall be made available to ABCA during any inspection of the facility. A medical cannabis business shall notify the Board by electronic means within twenty-four (24) hours of any incident in which a theft, burglary, robbery, or break in occurred, whether or not items were actually removed from the facility. The facility manager shall follow up the initial notice with a written report describing in detail the factual circumstances surrounding the incident and include an inventory of all stolen items, if applicable.

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, 10204 (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).