Missouri Laws 195.815 – Fingerprinting requirements, medical marijuana facilities — definitions
1. The department of health and senior services shall require all employees, contractors, owners, and volunteers of medical marijuana facilities to submit fingerprints to the Missouri state highway patrol for the purpose of conducting a state and federal fingerprint-based criminal background check.
2. The department may require that such fingerprint submissions be made as part of a medical marijuana facility application, a medical marijuana facility renewal application, and an individual’s application for licensure and issuance of an identification card authorizing that individual to be an employee, contractor, owner, or volunteer of a medical marijuana facility.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 195.815
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Manufacture: the production, preparation, propagation, compounding or processing of drug paraphernalia or of a controlled substance, or an imitation controlled substance, either directly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container. See Missouri Laws 195.010
- Marijuana: all parts of the plant genus Cannabis in any species or form thereof, including, but not limited to Cannabis Sativa L. See Missouri Laws 195.010
- Person: an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, joint venture, association, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Missouri Laws 195.010
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof, and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Missouri Laws 195.010
3. Fingerprint cards and any required fees shall be sent to the Missouri state highway patrol’s central repository. The fingerprints shall be used for searching the state criminal records repository and shall also be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a federal criminal records search under section 43.540. The Missouri state highway patrol shall notify the department of any criminal history record information or lack of criminal history record information discovered on the individual. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 610.120 to the contrary, all records related to any criminal history information discovered shall be accessible and available to the department.
4. As used in this section, the following words shall mean:
(1) “Contractor”, a person performing work or service of any kind for a medical marijuana facility in accordance with a contract with that facility;
(2) “Employee”, a person performing work or service of any kind or character for hire in a medical marijuana facility;
(3) “Medical marijuana facility”, an entity licensed or certified by the department of health and senior services to acquire, cultivate, process, manufacture, test, store, sell, transport, or deliver medical marijuana.