New Mexico Statutes 26-2C-12. Local control
A. A local jurisdiction may:
Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 26-2C-12
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
(1) adopt time, place and manner rules that do not conflict with the Cannabis Regulation Act or the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 24, Article 16], including rules that reasonably limit density of licenses and operating times consistent with neighborhood uses; and
(2) allow for the smoking, vaporizing and ingesting of cannabis products within an indoor or outdoor cannabis consumption area if:
(a) unless licensed pursuant to the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 26, Article 2B], access to the cannabis consumption area is restricted to persons twenty-one years of age and older; and
(b) the cannabis establishment or integrated cannabis microbusiness is located at a minimum distance from a school or daycare center as determined by the local jurisdiction, but which minimum distance shall not be set at any more than three hundred feet from a school or daycare center that was in existence at the time the establishment or microbusiness was licensed.
B. A local jurisdiction shall not:
(1) prevent transportation of cannabis products on public roads by a licensee that transports cannabis products in compliance with the Cannabis Regulation Act;
(2) completely prohibit the operation of a licensee;
(3) prohibit or limit signage attached to or located on licensed premises that identifies the premises as a cannabis establishment;
(4) require a licensed premises or a cannabis consumption area to be any more than three hundred feet from a school or daycare center that was in existence at the time the cannabis establishment or integrated cannabis microbusiness was licensed;
(5) require an existing licensee at a licensed premises to relocate; or
(6) prohibit a person from producing homegrown cannabis as provided for in the Cannabis Regulation Act.