101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4416

 

Introduced 2/3/2020, by Rep. Anthony DeLuca

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 705/55-25

    Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that a county may not authorize or permit the sale of adult-use cannabis within the 1.5 mile radius of contiguous unincorporated territory surrounding the corporate limits of a municipality that has prohibited the operation of adult-use cannabis dispensing organizations within the municipality.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning health.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act is amended
5by changing Section 55-25 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 705/55-25)
7    Sec. 55-25. Local ordinances. Unless otherwise provided
8under this Act or otherwise in accordance with State law:
9        (1) A unit of local government, including a home rule
10    unit or any non-home rule county within the unincorporated
11    territory of the county, may enact reasonable zoning
12    ordinances or resolutions, not in conflict with this Act or
13    rules adopted pursuant to this Act, regulating cannabis
14    business establishments. No unit of local government,
15    including a home rule unit or any non-home rule county
16    within the unincorporated territory of the county, may
17    prohibit home cultivation or unreasonably prohibit use of
18    cannabis authorized by this Act.
19        (2) A unit of local government, including a home rule
20    unit or any non-home rule county within the unincorporated
21    territory of the county, may enact ordinances or rules not
22    in conflict with this Act or with rules adopted pursuant to
23    this Act governing the time, place, manner, and number of

 

 

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1    cannabis business establishment operations, including
2    minimum distance limitations between cannabis business
3    establishments and locations it deems sensitive, including
4    colleges and universities, through the use of conditional
5    use permits. A unit of local government, including a home
6    rule unit, may establish civil penalties for violation of
7    an ordinance or rules governing the time, place, and manner
8    of operation of a cannabis business establishment or a
9    conditional use permit in the jurisdiction of the unit of
10    local government. No unit of local government, including a
11    home rule unit or non-home rule county within an
12    unincorporated territory of the county, may unreasonably
13    restrict the time, place, manner, and number of cannabis
14    business establishment operations authorized by this Act.
15        (3) A unit of local government, including a home rule
16    unit, or any non-home rule county within the unincorporated
17    territory of the county may authorize or permit the
18    on-premises consumption of cannabis at or in a dispensing
19    organization or retail tobacco store (as defined in Section
20    10 of the Smoke Free Illinois Act) within its jurisdiction
21    in a manner consistent with this Act. A dispensing
22    organization or retail tobacco store authorized or
23    permitted by a unit of local government to allow on-site
24    consumption shall not be deemed a public place within the
25    meaning of the Smoke Free Illinois Act.
26        (4) A unit of local government, including a home rule

 

 

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1    unit or any non-home rule county within the unincorporated
2    territory of the county, may not regulate the activities
3    described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) in a manner more
4    restrictive than the regulation of those activities by the
5    State under this Act. A county may not authorize or permit
6    the sale of adult-use cannabis within the 1.5 mile radius
7    of contiguous unincorporated territory surrounding the
8    corporate limits of a municipality that has prohibited the
9    operation of adult-use cannabis dispensing organizations
10    within the municipality. This Section is a limitation under
11    subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois
12    Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units
13    of powers and functions exercised by the State.
14        (5) A unit of local government, including a home rule
15    unit or any non-home rule county within the unincorporated
16    territory of the county, may enact ordinances to prohibit
17    or significantly limit a cannabis business establishment's
18    location.
19(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19.)