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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66127</law_id><section_number>3.2-4116</section_number><catch_line>Registration conditions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Production and Sale of Agricultural Products</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="41.1">Industrial Hemp</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Industrial Hemp Crop Production, Handling, and Processing</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A person who is not a <span class="dictionary">federally licensed hemp producer</span> shall obtain a registration pursuant to subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Issuance of registrations; exemption" href="/3.2-4115/">3.2-4115</a> prior to growing, handling, or processing any <span class="dictionary">industrial hemp</span> in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-240218" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4116/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A person issued a registration pursuant to subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Issuance of registrations; exemption" href="/3.2-4115/">3.2-4115</a> shall: <a id="paragraph-240219" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4116/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Maintain records that reflect compliance with this article; <a id="paragraph-240220" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4116/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Retain all <span class="dictionary">industrial hemp</span> growing, handling, or processing records for at least three years; <a id="paragraph-240221" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4116/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Allow his <span class="dictionary">production field</span>, <span class="dictionary">handler</span>&#x2019;s storage site, or <span class="dictionary">process site</span> to be inspected by and at the discretion of the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> or his designee, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of State Police, or the chief <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer of the locality in which the <span class="dictionary">production field</span>, or <span class="dictionary">handler</span>&#x2019;s storage site, or <span class="dictionary">process site</span> exists; <a id="paragraph-240222" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4116/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Allow the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> or his designee to monitor and test the <span class="dictionary">grower</span>&#x2019;s, <span class="dictionary">handler</span>&#x2019;s, or <span class="dictionary">processor</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">industrial hemp</span> for compliance with <span class="dictionary">tetrahydrocannabinol</span> levels and for other appropriate purposes established pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Regulations" href="/3.2-4114/">3.2-4114</a>, at the cost of the <span class="dictionary">grower</span>, <span class="dictionary">handler</span>, or <span class="dictionary">processor</span>; and <a id="paragraph-240223" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4116/#B4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> If required by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, destroy, at the cost of the <span class="dictionary">grower</span>, <span class="dictionary">handler</span>, or <span class="dictionary">processor</span> and in a manner approved of and verified by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, any Cannabis sativa that the <span class="dictionary">grower</span> <span class="dictionary">grows</span>, the <span class="dictionary">handler</span> <span class="dictionary">handles</span>, or the <span class="dictionary">processor</span> processes that has been tested and, following any re-sampling and retesting as authorized pursuant to the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Authority of Commissioner; notice to law enforcement; report" href="/3.2-4114.2/">3.2-4114.2</a>, is found to have a concentration of <span class="dictionary">tetrahydrocannabinol</span> that is greater than that allowed by federal <span class="dictionary">law</span>, or any <span class="dictionary">Cannabis sativa product</span> that the <span class="dictionary">processor</span> produces. <a id="paragraph-240224" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4116/#B5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> A <span class="dictionary">processor</span> shall not sell <span class="dictionary">industrial hemp</span> or a substance containing an <span class="dictionary">industrial hemp</span> extract, as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/3.2-5145.1/">3.2-5145.1</a>, to a person if the <span class="dictionary">processor</span> knows or has reason to know that such person will use the <span class="dictionary">industrial hemp</span> or substance containing an <span class="dictionary">industrial hemp</span> extract in a substance that (i) contains a <span class="dictionary">total tetrahydrocannabinol</span> concentration that is greater than 0.3 percent or (ii) contains more than two milligrams of <span class="dictionary">total tetrahydrocannabinol</span> per package and does not contain an amount of cannabidiol that is at least 25 times greater than the amount of <span class="dictionary">total tetrahydrocannabinol</span> per package. <a id="paragraph-240225" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-4116/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2015, cc. 158, 180; 2018, cc. 689, 690; 2019, cc. 653, 654; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 110; 2023, cc. 744, 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
