Article 1. General Cultivation Requirements

§16201. Cultivation License Types.

License types include:

(a) Specialty Cottage:

1. “Specialty Cottage Outdoor” is an outdoor cultivation site with up to 25 mature plants or 2,500 square feet or less of total canopy.
2. “Specialty Cottage Indoor” is an indoor cultivation site with 500 square feet or less of total canopy.
3. “Specialty Cottage Mixed-Light Tier 1 and 2” is a mixed-light cultivation site with 2,500 square feet or less of total canopy.

(b) Specialty:

1. “Specialty Outdoor” is an outdoor cultivation site with less than or equal to 5,000 square feet of total canopy, or up to 50 mature plants on noncontiguous plots.
2. “Specialty Indoor” is an indoor cultivation site with between 501 and 5,000 square feet of total canopy.
3. “Specialty Mixed-Light Tier 1 and 2” is a mixed-light cultivation site with between 2,501 and 5,000 square feet of total canopy.

(c) Small:

1. “Small Outdoor” is an outdoor cultivation site with between 5,001 and 10,000 square feet of total canopy.
2. “Small Indoor” is an indoor cultivation site with between 5,001 and 10,000 square feet of total canopy.
3. “Small Mixed-Light Tier 1 and 2” is a mixed-light cultivation site with between 5,001 and 10,000 square feet of total canopy.

(d) Medium:

1. “Medium Outdoor” is an outdoor cultivation site with between 10,001 square feet and one acre of total canopy.
2. “Medium Indoor” is an indoor cultivation site with between 10,001 and 22,000 square feet of total canopy.
3. “Medium Mixed-Light Tier 1 and 2” is a mixed-light cultivation site with between 10,001 and 22,000 square feet of total canopy.

(e) “Nursery” is a cultivation site that conducts only cultivation of clones, immature plants, seeds, and other agricultural products used specifically for the propagation of cultivation of cannabis.

(f) “Processor” is a cultivation site that conducts only trimming, drying, curing, grading, packaging, and labeling of cannabis and nonmanufactured cannabis products.

Authority cited: Section 26013, Business and Professions Code.
Reference: Sections 26012, 26013, 26050 and 26061, Business and Professions Code.

BACK TO TOP

§ 16201.1. Large Cultivation Licenses.

(a) Beginning January 1, 2023, the Department may issue Large Cultivation licenses. Large license types include:

1. “Large Outdoor” is an outdoor cultivation site with more than one acre of total canopy.
2. “Large Indoor” is an indoor cultivation site with more than 22,000 square feet of total canopy.
3. “Large Mixed-light” is a Mixed-light cultivation site with more than 22,000 square feet of total canopy.

Authority: Section 26013, Business and Professions Code.
Reference: Sections 26012, 26013, 26050 and 26061, Business and Professions Code.

BACK TO TOP

§16202. General Cultivation Requirements.

(a) Licensees are prohibited from transferring any commercially cultivated cannabis or nonmanufactured cannabis products from their licensed premises. All transfers of cannabis and nonmanufactured cannabis product from a licensed cultivation premises must be conducted by a distributor licensed by the Department.

(b) Artificial lighting is permissible only to maintain immature plants outside the canopy area.

Authority: Section 26013, Business and Professions Code.
Reference: Sections 26010, 26012, 26013, 26050 and 26053, Business and Professions Code.

BACK TO TOP

§16209. Medium Cultivation License Limits.

A person or owner shall be limited to one (1) Medium Outdoor, or one (1) Medium Indoor, or one (1) Medium Mixed-Light A-License or M-License. This section shall remain in effect until January 1, 2023.

Authority cited: Section 26013, Business and Professions Code.
Reference: Sections 26012, 26013, 26050 and 26061, Business and Professions Code.

BACK TO TOP