Bill > S1065

This bill aims to strengthen local control over recreational marijuana businesses in Massachusetts. It allows municipal governments to vote to prohibit the location of marijuana establishments or certain types of marijuana establishments within their borders. The bill also allows municipalities to adopt ordinances and bylaws that impose reasonable safeguards on the operation of marijuana establishments, such as governing the time, place, and manner of their operations, limiting the number of establishments, restricting certain types of marijuana cultivation and manufacturing, and establishing restrictions on public signage. The bill prohibits municipalities from prohibiting the transportation of marijuana and from requiring fees from marijuana establishments that are not directly proportional and reasonably related to the costs imposed on the municipality by the operation of such establishments.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S1065