5707.1 A person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall not be employed by an internet retailer or retailer to sell or dispense medical cannabis.5707.2 A person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall not be employed by a cultivation center to grow or cultivate medical cannabis.5707.3 A person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall not be employed by a testing laboratory to test medical cannabis.5707.4 A person under the age of eighteen (18) shall be precluded from purchasing medical cannabis from an internet retailer or retailer unless he or she is a qualifying patient and is in the presence of a parent or guardian.5707.5 An internet retailer or retailer may prohibit an individual who is not a qualifying patient, caregiver, or on official government business from entering or remaining on the registered premises.5707.6 An internet retailer or retailer, cultivation center and testing laboratory shall maintain a visitor log on-site. An internet retailer or retailer's visitor log shall include the visitor's name, title, company, date, time, and purpose of the visit.5707.7 An internet retailer or retailer, cultivation center and testing laboratory shall provide visitor identification badges and register any visitors that are not qualifying patients or caregivers or non-resident qualifying patients, including but not limited to vendors, potential vendors, managers, agents, or employees, elected officials, and medical consultants.5707.8 In the event of an emergency, a licensed medical cannabis business shall be permitted to provide an outside contractor with access to a limited or restricted access area for the sole purpose of making repairs when not open to the public. The licensed medical cannabis business shall be required to log in and out the outside contractor and retain with the log a photocopy of the outside contractor's government issued identification.5707.9 A medical cannabis business shall provide any utilized outside contractor with a visitor identification badge prior to entering a limited or restricted access area and shall be escorted at all times by a registered medical cannabis business owner, manager, employee or agent. The outside contractor shall have their visitor identification badge displayed at all times while he or she is working in the limited or restricted access area. The medical cannabis business shall ensure that the outside contractor does not touch any plant or medical cannabis. All visitor badges shall be returned to the medical cannabis business upon exit.

5707.10 A medical cannabis business shall allow access to limited or restricted access areas to emergency services personnel, such as firefighters, MPD, ABCA investigators, or other government officials in the performance of their duties without an escort in order to perform their job.

5707.11 For non-emergency repairs, an internet retailer or retailer that is not open to the public, a cultivation center, or a testing laboratory shall provide notice to ABCA before allowing an outside contractor, such as an electrician or repair person, to work in a limited or restricted access area between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.

5707.12 For the purposes of this section, an emergency repair is one that needs to be performed in order to prevent a risk of injury, a risk to the health of any person, property damage, or other conditions that would necessitate the closing of the facility.

SOURCE: Notice of Emergency and Third Proposed Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 3299 (April 15, 2011)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Notice of Emergency and Fourth Proposed Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 7207 (August 12, 2011)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 10128, 10213 (December 2, 2011); 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).