Illinois Administrative Code › Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Part 1290 - RULES FOR ADMINISTRATION OF THE COMPASSIONATE USE OF MEDICAL CANNABIS PROGRAM › Subpart C - APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR A MEDICAL CANNABIS DISPENSARY REGISTRATION AUTHORIZATION › Section 1290.60 - Selection Process

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) The Division
				will conduct a comprehensive, fair and impartial evaluation of the applications
				timely received. It will award dispensing organization authorizations on a
				competitive basis.
b) Applications
				will be assessed to determine whether they meet the mandatory minimum
				qualification criteria. Application items are mandatory unless otherwise
				indicated. An applicant that fails to submit the information required by this
				Part may be disqualified prior to the review and scoring process.
c) The Division will accept applications,
				assigning each one a unique identification number. During the selection
				process, the application will be reviewed and referred to by its unique
				identification number.
d) An
				application will be disqualified if one or more of the prospective principal
				officers has been convicted of an excluded offense.
e) When the Division receives more than one
				complete and timely filed application for an authorization in a District, the
				Division will choose the applicant through a selection and scoring process (see
				Section
				1290.70
				).
f) The Division will rank each
				complete application based on its total score.
g) Authorizations will be issued to the
				applicants meeting at least the minimum criteria in each category and with the
				highest total score overall per District and based on the number of allocated
				registrations per District.
h) In
				the event that two or more applicants receive the same total high score, the
				Division will select the applicant that received the highest score in the
				security and recordkeeping categories. In the event that the applicants
				received the same score in the security and recordkeeping categories, the tied
				applicants will be interviewed by a panel of three Department employees
				selected by the Director. The panel will interview the applicants based on the
				information gathered during the application process. The panel will make a
				written recommendation to the Director, and the Director will review the
				recommendation and make a final written determination.
i) The Division may issue up to 60 dispensing
				organization authorizations. If the Division concludes that, during the first
				request for applications, no qualified applications are timely received for a
				District or Districts, the Division reserves the right to award fewer than 60
				authorizations. If a second round of applications is required, the second round
				will be conducted in the same manner as the first.
j) An authorization notice will be sent to a
				successful applicant. The authorization notice will include a registry
				identification number to be used on all future communication with the
				Division.
k) Notwithstanding
				Section
				1290.620,
				nothing in this Part is intended to confer a property or other right, duty,
				privilege or interest entitling an applicant to an administrative hearing upon
				denial of an application.
l) To
				reassign a registration, the Division will publish on its website, and in such
				other places as the Division deems appropriate, a notice of open applications
				for dispensary registration. The notice shall include:
1) The number of registrations anticipated to
				be awarded;
2) Information on how
				to obtain an application;
3) The
				deadline for receipt of applications;
4) Acceptable methods for submitting an
				application; and
5) The available
				District.