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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="36-1501" title_number="36" title_name="Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Banking and Insurance">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Cannabis business” means a manufacturer, producer, or another person that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>participates in any business or organized activity that involves handling cannabis or cannabis products, including cultivating, producing, manufacturing, selling, transporting, displaying, dispensing, distributing, or purchasing cannabis or cannabis products; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>engages in an activity described in item (1) of this subsection in accordance with State law.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Depository institution” means a State–chartered or federally chartered financial institution, other–state bank, or foreign branch that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is located in the State or maintains branches in the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is authorized to maintain accounts.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Service provider” means a business, an organization, or any other person that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>sells goods or services to a cannabis business; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provides any business services, including the sale or lease of real or any other property, legal or other licensed services, or any other ancillary service, relating to cannabis.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Service provider” does not include a business, an organization, or any other person that participates in any business or organized activity that involves handling cannabis or cannabis products, including cultivating, producing, manufacturing, selling, transporting, displaying, dispensing, distributing, or purchasing cannabis or cannabis products.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
