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Boyle County Fiscal Court adopts ordinances to allow medical cannabis businesses and set local rules
Summary
The Boyle County Fiscal Court approved three ordinances on Sept. 10 that put its prior decision to allow medical cannabis businesses into written law, add zoning allowances for gravel parking in some industrial zones and adopt regulations for medical cannabis facilities following planning commission recommendations.
Boyle County’s fiscal court voted Sept. 10 to adopt a package of ordinances to implement local rules for medical cannabis operations and related zoning changes.
Attorney Tony Gary presented ordinances that the court said align local code with a recent amendment to the Kentucky Revised Statutes allowing counties to permit or prohibit medical cannabis businesses. The court approved the second reading of ordinance 4‑11, which staff described as formalizing the county’s earlier decision to allow medical cannabis business operations within Boyle County.
Magistrates also approved ordinance 9‑20.25, an amendment to the joint zoning ordinance to permit gravel parking lots in specified industrial and heavy industrial districts. Gary said the change was driven by industrial development needs and that the text remains mostly unchanged from prior drafts. The court approved that second reading by voice vote.
The court then approved ordinance 9‑20.26, which adopts planning commission recommendations regulating medical cannabis facilities, including site and use limits; Gary said the ordinance includes attachments detailing specific location constraints. During discussion, a magistrate raised a federal‑level concern that an ATF firearms form asks whether someone is an unlawful user of marijuana (question number 21f), which may affect firearm eligibility under federal law. Gary and other magistrates noted the conflict between federal ATF requirements and state medical cannabis law.
All three second readings passed by voice vote. No formal roll‑call counts were recorded in the transcript; the minutes show the motions were made, seconded and carried.
The court’s action follows the General Assembly’s creation of a medical cannabis chapter in the Kentucky Revised Statutes earlier in the year; local governments were given authority to prohibit or allow operations through fiscal court action. The adopted ordinances place Boyle County’s permissions and facility rules on the record and amend zoning text to accommodate related uses.
The ordinances become part of the county’s joint zoning ordinance and will be available in the county clerk’s office; the court said attachments to the medical‑facility ordinance will specify the detailed site limitations.
