2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
Health Care
Article 43.4 - Colorado Retail Marijuana Code
Part 4 - License Types
§ 12-43.4-401. Classes of licenses

(1) For the purpose of regulating the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, sale, and testing of retail marijuana and retail marijuana products, the state licensing authority in its discretion, upon receipt of an application in the prescribed form, may issue and grant to the applicant a license from any of the following classes, subject to the provisions and restrictions provided by this article:

(a) Retail marijuana store license;

(b) Retail marijuana cultivation facility license;

(c) Retail marijuana products manufacturing license;

(d) Retail marijuana testing facility license;

(e) Occupational licenses and registrations for owners, managers, operators, employees, contractors, and other support staff employed by, working in, or having access to restricted areas of the licensed premises, as determined by the state licensing authority. The state licensing authority may take any action with respect to a registration pursuant to this article as it may with respect to a license pursuant to this article, in accordance with the procedures established pursuant to this article.

(f) Retail marijuana transporter license; and

(g) Retail marijuana business operator license.

(2) (a) A person may operate a licensed medical marijuana center, an optional cultivation facility, a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility, and any retail marijuana establishment at the same location if the local jurisdiction permits a dual operation.

(b) (I) Except as provided in subparagraph (II) of this paragraph (b), a dual medical marijuana center and retail marijuana store shall maintain separate licensed premises, including entrances and exits, inventory, point of sale operations, and record keeping.

(II) For a dual medical marijuana center and a retail marijuana store that only sells medical marijuana to persons twenty-one years of age or older, the state licensing authority must adopt rules concerning the licensed premises including but not limited to whether to allow single entrances and exits and virtual separation of inventory.

(c) A dual cultivation business operation shall maintain either physical or virtual separation of the two facilities and the plants and inventory of the two facilities.

(3) All persons licensed pursuant to this article shall collect sales tax on all retail sales made at a retail marijuana store.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a licensed retail cultivation facility or a licensed retail marijuana products manufacturer may compensate its employees using performance-based incentives.