4-41a-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.

Terms Used In Utah Code 4-41a-501

(a) the product of any chemical or physical process applied to naturally occurring biomass that concentrates or isolates the cannabinoids contained in the biomass; and
(b) any amount of a natural cannabinoid or artificially derived cannabinoid in an artificially derived cannabinoid's purified state. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis cultivation byproduct: means any portion of a cannabis plant that is not intended to be sold as a cannabis plant product. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis cultivation facility: means a person that:
    (a) possesses cannabis;
    (b) grows or intends to grow cannabis; and
    (c) sells or intends to sell cannabis to a cannabis cultivation facility, a cannabis processing facility, or a medical cannabis research licensee. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis plant product: means any portion of a cannabis plant intended to be sold in a form that is recognizable as a portion of a cannabis plant. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis processing facility: means a person that:
    (a) acquires or intends to acquire cannabis from a cannabis production establishment;
    (b) possesses cannabis with the intent to manufacture a cannabis product;
    (c) manufactures or intends to manufacture a cannabis product from unprocessed cannabis or a cannabis extract; and
    (d) sells or intends to sell a cannabis product to a medical cannabis pharmacy or a medical cannabis research licensee. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Independent cannabis testing laboratory: includes a laboratory that the department or a research university operates in accordance with Subsection 4-41a-201(14). See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Inventory control system: means a system described in Section 4-41a-103. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • (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.

    Amended by Chapter 313, 2023 General Session