Bill Text: IL HB4003 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that the mayor or president of the board of trustees of each city, village, or incorporated town and the president or chairman of the county board shall be the local cannabis control commissioner for his or her respective city, village, incorporated town, or county. Provides that the mayor, president of the board of trustees, or president or chairman of the county board may appoint a person or persons to assist him or her in the exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties of the local cannabis control commissioner. Provides for the powers, functions, and duties of a local cannabis control commissioner, including the power to recommend to the relevant Department that a license issued to a person within his or her jurisdiction be suspended or revoked for cause and to enter or to authorize any law enforcement officer to enter at any time upon any premises licensed under the Act to determine whether any of the provisions of the Act or any rules or regulations have been or are being violated, to examine the premises of a licensee, and to receive complaints from any citizen within the local cannabis control commissioner's jurisdiction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB4003 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4003-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act is amended | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | by adding Sections 55-100 and 55-105 as follows:
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| 6 | (410 ILCS 705/55-100 new) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 55-100. Local cannabis control commissioner. The | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | mayor or president of the board of trustees of each city,
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| 9 | village, or incorporated town, or his or her designee, and the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | president or chairman of the county
board, or his or her | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | designee, shall be the local cannabis control commissioner for | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | his or her respective
city, village, incorporated town, or | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | county and shall be charged
with the administration in his or | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | her respective jurisdiction of the
appropriate provisions of | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | this Act and of ordinances and resolutions
relating to | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | cannabis as may be enacted. The authority of the
president or | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | chairman of the county board, or his or her designee, shall | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | extend only to that area in
any county that lies outside the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | corporate limit of any city, village,
and incorporated town in | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | the county and those areas that are owned by the
county and are | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | within the corporate limits of a city, village, and
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| 22 | incorporated town with a population of less than 1,000,000. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | The mayor, president of the board of trustees, or | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | president or
chairman of the county board, or his or her | ||||||
| 2 | designee, may appoint a person or persons to assist him
or her | ||||||
| 3 | in the exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties
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| 4 | of the local cannabis control commissioner.
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| 5 | (410 ILCS 705/55-105 new) | ||||||
| 6 | Sec. 55-105. Powers, functions, and duties of a local | ||||||
| 7 | cannabis control commissioner. Each local cannabis control | ||||||
| 8 | commissioner shall have the
following powers, functions, and | ||||||
| 9 | duties with respect to licenses issued under this Act: | ||||||
| 10 | (1) to recommend to the relevant Department that a | ||||||
| 11 | license issued to a person within his or her
jurisdiction | ||||||
| 12 | be suspended or revoked for
cause; | ||||||
| 13 | (2) to enter or to authorize any law enforcement | ||||||
| 14 | officer to enter at any
time upon any premises licensed | ||||||
| 15 | under this Act to determine whether any of the
provisions | ||||||
| 16 | of this Act or any rules or regulations adopted by him or | ||||||
| 17 | her or by the applicable
Department have been or are being | ||||||
| 18 | violated, and at such time to
examine the premises of the | ||||||
| 19 | licensee; and | ||||||
| 20 | (3) to receive a complaint from any citizen within his | ||||||
| 21 | or her jurisdiction that
any provision of this Act or any | ||||||
| 22 | rule adopted
under this Act has been or is being violated | ||||||
| 23 | and to act upon the complaint in a manner provided by law.
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