HAR §11-850-21. expertise shall evaluate the applications and award points for each merit criterion

The points shall be totaled for each application and the applications ranked from the highest total score to the lowest total score within each group. (e) In order to be awarded a license based on merit criteria, an applicant must be able to show the ability to operate a dispensary. (f) The department shall award a dispensary license to the highest scoring applicant or applicants within each group. The department shall notify in writing each of the applicants of their respective score and ranking for their respective group. The department shall post on its website the total score for each applicant. (g) The department shall hold unselected applications in reserve to offer a license to the next highest scoring applicant if the highest scoring applicant fails to pay the licensing fee in accordance with section 11-850-21. When all available licenses within each group have been issued, the department shall remove all unselected applications from its list of reserved applications in that group and notify all applicants. [Eff 12/14/15; am and comp 2/24/22; comp 4/29/22; comp 11/17/22; comp 8/7/23; comp 4/5/24; comp 12/6/24; comp NOV 17 2025 ] (Auth: HRS §§321-9, 329D-7, 329D-27) (Imp: HRS §§329D-5, 329D-7; SLH 2017, Act 170, §3)