California · Health and Safety Code - HSC

HSC §11362.83: Nothing in this article shall prevent a city or other local governing body from adopting and enforcing any of the following: (a) Adopting local ordinances that regulate the location, operation, or est

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This statute allows local governments to create ordinances regulating medicinal cannabis cooperatives and to enforce those ordinances through civil or criminal means, provided the laws comply with state law.

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Nothing in this article shall prevent a city or other local governing body from adopting and enforcing any of the following: (a) Adopting local ordinances that regulate the location, operation, or establishment of a medicinal cannabis cooperative or collective. (b) The civil and criminal enforcement of local ordinances described in subdivision (a). (c) Enacting other laws consistent with this article.

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