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the Certificate of Occupancy is not issued, or denied in a writing stating the grounds therefore, in this time it shall be deemed issued. (g) Once issued its Certificate of Occupancy, a cooperative or collective shall be eligible for a gross receipts business license which shall be issued as a ministerial duty immediately upon application. Sec. 18 -618. - Operating Standards Violation of any of the following standards that rises to the level of a persistent public nuisance in fact that cannot be abated through feasible conditions of operation shall be grounds for abatement pursuant to Chapter 17 of this Code. (a) Collectives and cooperatives shall meet all the operating standards for the dispensing of medical cannabis required pursuant to California Health and Safety Code sections 11362.5 and 11362.7 et seq., by this Article, and by the 2008 Attorney General's Guidelines for the Security and Non - Diversion of Marijuana Grown for Medical Use. (b) Collectives and cooperatives shall be operated only as collectives or cooperatives with a membership consisting exclusively of qualified patients, persons with ID cards, and primary caregivers, which membership status shall be affirmatively verified. (c) Collectives and cooperatives shall exchange, sell, transfer, and distribute only cannabis cultivated, manufactured, or processed in the State of California and that has not left the State before arriving at the collective or cooperative, and that has been cultivated only by, and provided only to, its verified members in a closed - circuit of production and consumption. (d) Medical cannabis collectives and cooperatives shall possess only a reasonable quantity of dried cannabis and cannabis plants to meet the personal medical needs of their members. Medical cannabis collectives and cooperatives shall not accumulate more cannabis than is necessary to meet the Dersonal medical needs of their members. (e) No medical cannabis shall be smoked, ingested, or otherwise consumed in the public right -of -way within 50 feet of a collective or cooperative. Any person violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of an infraction and upon the conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of $100. (f) The collective or cooperative shall not hold or maintain a license from the State Department of Alcohol Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages, or operate a business that sells alcoholic beverages. Nor shall alcoholic beverages be consumed on the premises or in the public right -of -way within 50 feet of a medical cannabis collective or cooperative. (g) In order to protect confidentiality, the collective or cooperative may maintain records of all qualified patients with a valid identification card and primary caregivers with a valid identification card using only the identification card number issued by the State or County 11