The Massachusetts Hashish Management Fee is awaiting steering from the lawyer normal’s workplace on the validity of votes taken through the two years following the elimination of Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien.
The votes embody the approval of licenses and two rounds of regulatory updates, based on State Home Information Service.
The request for authorized clarification arises from issues O’Brien raised over the method used to nominate appearing chairs after her elimination, which a choose deemed illegal.
After O’Brien’s elimination, Commissioner Kimberly Roy chaired the subsequent assembly, stating she had been “designated as chair.”
In subsequent conferences, commissioners voted to nominate others as appearing chair. O’Brien has argued that solely the chair has the authority to designate an appearing chair.
“My concern is that as a result of we’ve not, for 2 years, had an appropriately delegated appearing chair, among the votes that occurred will not be legitimate,” O’Brien advised State Home Information Service.
“The authority of the chair runs via the time period of the particular person so designated to be chair,” O’Brien mentioned, pointing to the CCC’s enabling regulation. “When you – and I take advantage of the time period energy baton – when you place the facility baton within the hand of no matter commissioner … so as soon as I had the facility baton, I’m the one one who can hand it off.”
CCC Govt Director Travis Ahern, who was appointed throughout O’Brien’s elimination, mentioned he and O’Brien would work with the Massachusetts lawyer normal’s workplace to make sure earlier commissioner votes had been carried out in accordance with the regulation.
