2595-20 Ordinance Regarding Medical Marijuana Dispensaries.pdf

2595-20 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 4, SECTIONS 5.1 and 5.2; CHAPTER 5, SECTION 34; CHAPTER 22, SECTION 3; AND CHAPTER 25, SECTIONS 4, 11.14, PART A: PERMITTED USES TABLE OF DISTRICT REGULATIONS OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE (MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES) BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY that Chapters 4, 5, and 25 of the Revised General Ordinances of the Township of West Orange be and are hereby amended as follows: I. PURPOSE The purpose of this ordinance is to update the zoning provisions of the Township of West Orange to incorporate the legal operation of medical marijuana dispensaries to specifically identify the zones for which such operations shall be allowable. This ordinance will also outline the requirements for the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries. II. CHAPTER 4, SECTION 5.1 SHALL BE AND HEREBY IS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED TO INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING: 4-5.1 Prohibitions. No person shall advertise, display, dispense, sell, or offer to sell any type of syringe, needle, eye dropper, spoon, pipe, testing kit, rolling paper, or other paraphernalia or appliances designed for or ordinarily used in smoking, testing, weighing, measuring, injecting, cooking or sniffing marijuana, cocaine, opium, hashish or other controlled dangerous substances as defined by N.J.S.A. 24:21-1 et seq. This prohibition shall not apply to the legal advertisement, legal display, legal dispensing, legal sale, or legal use of marijuana or other cannabis products pursuant to the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act, N.J.S.A. 24:6I-1, et. al. or any other State Law. III. CHAPTER 4, SECTION 5.2 SHALL BE AND HEREBY IS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED TO INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING: 4-5.2 Maintaining Premises Constitutes Common Nuisance. It shall constitute a common nuisance to maintain any building, conveyance or premises which is resorted to by persons for the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, administration or use of any type of syringe, needle, eye dropper, spoon, pipe, testing kit, rolling paper or other paraphernalia or appliances designed for or ordinarily used in smoking, testing, weighing, measuring, injecting, cooking or sniffing marijuana, cocaine, opium, hashish or other controlled dangerous substances as defined by N.J.S.A. 24:21-1 et seq. Except that this provision

sting, weighing, measuring, injecting, cooking or sniffing marijuana, cocaine, opium, hashish or other controlled dangerous substances as defined by N.J.S.A. 24:21-1 et seq. Except that this provision shall not apply to the legal manufacturing, legal distribution, legal dispensing, legal administration, legal sale or legal use of marijuana or other cannabis products pursuant to the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act, N.J.S.A. 24:6I-1, et. al. or any other State Law.