2019 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-429. Applicability – Jurisdiction - Destruction of plant parts that do not require medical marijuana waste disposal facility – Disposal records.
A. Medical marijuana waste shall be subject to the provisions of this act and shall not be subject to the provisions of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act. Nothing in this act shall alter or affect the jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility of the Department of Environmental Quality as provided for in Title 27A of the Oklahoma Statutes.
B. Commercial licensees, medical marijuana research facilities and medical marijuana education facilities shall be authorized to destroy the following marijuana plant parts without being required to utilize the services of a medical marijuana waste disposal facility:
1. Root balls;
2. Stems;
3. Fan leaves; and
4. Seeds.
Unless restricted by local ordinance, commercial licensees, medical marijuana research facilities and medical marijuana education facilities shall be authorized to destroy the above-listed marijuana plant parts on-site by open burning, incineration, burying, mulching, composting or any other technique approved by the Department of Environmental Quality.
C. Commercial licensees, medical marijuana research facilities and medical marijuana education facilities engaged in the disposal of medical marijuana waste shall create and maintain documentation on a form prescribed by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority that includes precise weights or counts of medical marijuana waste and the manner in which the medical marijuana waste is disposed. Such documentation shall contain a witness affidavit and signature attesting to the lawful disposal of the medical marijuana waste under penalty of perjury. All disposal records shall be maintained by commercial licensees, medical marijuana research facilities and medical marijuana educational facilities for a period of five (5) years and shall be subject to inspection and auditing by the Authority.
Added by Laws 2019, c. 337, § 3, emerg. eff. May 9, 2019.
