Section 501 – Cannabis cultivation facility — Operating requirements.

• (1) A cannabis cultivation facility shall ensure that any cannabis growing at the cannabis cultivation facility is not visible from the ground level of the cannabis cultivation facility perimeter.

• (2) A cannabis cultivation facility shall use a unique identifier that is connected to the facility’s inventory control system to identify:
  • (a) beginning at the time a cannabis plant is eight inches tall and has a root ball, each cannabis plant;
  • (b) each unique harvest of cannabis plants;
  • (c) each batch of cannabis the facility transfers to a medical cannabis pharmacy, a cannabis processing facility, or an independent cannabis testing laboratory; and
  • (d) any excess, contaminated, or deteriorated cannabis of which the cannabis cultivation facility disposes.

• (3) A cannabis cultivation facility shall identify cannabis biomass as cannabis byproduct or cannabis plant product before transferring the cannabis biomass from the facility.

• (4) A cannabis cultivation facility shall either:
  • (a) ensure that a cannabis processing facility chemically or physically processes cannabis cultivation byproduct to produce a cannabis concentrate for incorporation into cannabis derivative products; or
  • (b) destroy cannabis cultivation byproduct in accordance with Section 4-41a-405.

• (5) A cannabis cultivation facility may not purchase or otherwise receive industrial hemp waste, except under limited circumstances in which the department determines there is a minimal risk of safety or security concern, as the department specifies in rules that the department makes in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act.

Amended by Chapter 290, 2022 General Session
Amended by Chapter 350, 2021 General Session