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SB1612 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB1612

 

Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Chapin Rose

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 705/55-25

    Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that to pay any claim for death, injury, or property damage that may be brought against a dispensing organization or retail store, under any theory of recovery, arising from the on-premises consumption of cannabis, the dispensing organization or retail store authorized or permitted by a unit of local government to allow on-site consumption must carry liability insurance coverage in amounts not less than the maximum liability amounts set forth in specified provisions of the Liquor Control Act of 1934 for liability insurance coverage regarding the sale of alcoholic liquor.


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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
13    or 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
23    to this Act governing the time, place, manner, and number

 

 

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1    of 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
8    manner of operation of a cannabis business establishment
9    or a conditional use permit in the jurisdiction of the
10    unit of local government. No unit of local government,
11    including a home rule unit or non-home rule county within
12    an unincorporated territory of the county, may
13    unreasonably restrict the time, place, manner, and number
14    of cannabis business establishment operations authorized
15    by this Act.
16        (3) A unit of local government, including a home rule
17    unit, or any non-home rule county within the
18    unincorporated territory of the county may authorize or
19    permit the on-premises consumption of cannabis at or in a
20    dispensing organization or retail tobacco store (as
21    defined in Section 10 of the Smoke Free Illinois Act)
22    within its jurisdiction in a manner consistent with this
23    Act. A dispensing organization or retail tobacco store
24    authorized or permitted by a unit of local government to
25    allow on-site consumption shall not be deemed a public
26    place within the meaning of the Smoke Free Illinois Act.

 

 

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1    To pay any claim for death, injury, or property damage
2    that may be brought against the dispensing organization or
3    retail store, under any theory of recovery, arising from
4    the on-premises consumption of cannabis, a dispensing
5    organization or retail store authorized or permitted by a
6    unit of local government to allow on-site consumption must
7    carry liability insurance coverage in amounts not less
8    than the maximum liability amounts set forth in subsection
9    (a) of Section 6-21 of the Liquor Control Act of 1934 for
10    liability insurance coverage regarding the sale of
11    alcoholic liquor.
12        (4) A unit of local government, including a home rule
13    unit or any non-home rule county within the unincorporated
14    territory of the county, may not regulate the activities
15    described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) in a manner more
16    restrictive than the regulation of those activities by the
17    State under this Act. This Section is a limitation under
18    subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois
19    Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units
20    of powers and functions exercised by the State.
21        (5) A unit of local government, including a home rule
22    unit or any non-home rule county within the unincorporated
23    territory of the county, may enact ordinances to prohibit
24    or significantly limit a cannabis business establishment's
25    location.
26(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19.)