Salinas Municipal Code Div. 9 Manufacturing Businesses

No more than five commercial cannabis manufacturing businesses may operate within the City of Salinas at any one time and no more than five commercial cannabis manufacturing permits shall be issued by the City of Salinas for commercial cannabis manufacturing businesses to operate within the City of Salinas at any one time.

(Ord. No. 2600 (NCS), § 1, 11-29-2017)

Upon approval by the City of Salinas, a permit authorizing a manufacturing business may also authorize distribution at the facility, provided that said distribution shall be limited to transporting cannabis and cannabis products to be processed on-site, and the transport of products processed on-site. This accessory use will not require or be deemed a separate permit.

(Ord. No. 2600 (NCS), § 1, 11-29-2017)

All manufacturing businesses shall comply with the following requirements:

(a) The use of any hazardous, flammable or explosive substances to process or manufacture cannabis products on site shall be specified in the subject commercial cannabis permit. Businesses that have received a permit for manufacturing but have not explicitly been given permission to engage in volatile manufacturing shall engage only in non-volatile manufacturing. The City of Salinas and Monterey County Environmental Health Bureau may inspect the commercial cannabis business at any time during business hours to ensure compliance with this section.

(b) All food products, food storage facilities, food-related utensils, equipment and materials shall be approved, used, managed and handled in accordance to the provisions of the California Retail Food Code, California Health and Safety Code Sections 113700—114437. All food products shall be protected from contamination at all times, and all food handlers must be clean, in good health and free from communicable diseases. The Monterey County Environmental Health Bureau may inspect the commercial cannabis business at any time during business hours to ensure compliance with this section.

(c) All manufactured cannabis products shall be individually wrapped at the original point of preparation. Packaging shall, at a minimum, include the elements as specified in California Business and Professions Code section 26120, as the same may be amended from time-to-time or superseded or replaced by subsequent state legislation or by any department or division of the State of California.

(d) All cannabis supplied to the business and all cannabis products manufactured by the business shall be cultivated and/or sold by licensed facilities that maintain operations in full conformance with the state and local regulations.

(Ord. No. 2600 (NCS), § 1, 11-29-2017)