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premises location, if located in Mashpee, where marijuana will be cultivated or MIPs will be prepared. If two locations are involved, both shall be located in an I-1 Industrial Zoning District and each shall require a separate special permit. The special permit granting authority for a second location where marijuana will be cultivated or MIPs will be prepared shall be based on the size of the facility, as provided in Section 174-24.C.1. 2. If the Center/Dispensary is proposed to be located in an existing building or commercial center, a separate special permit shall be required for said Center / Dispensary, in addition to that previously approved for the building or commercial center,which may also serve as a modification of the previously-approved special permit. In such situations,the special permit granting authority which approved the most recent special permit, if any, for the existing building or commercial center, shall be the special permit granting authority for the proposed Center/Dispensary. 3. Any such Center / Dispensary shall not be located within 500 feet of a public or private kindergarten, primary or secondary school, a place of worship, a day nursery, nursery school, etc. as listed in Subsection 174.25.B.(10) or a public park or playground. No other specific separation requirements will apply. 4. Any such Center / Dispensary shall be compliant with requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guidelines and the regulations of the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board. 5. No such Center/Dispensary may be approved for operation, or remain in operation, without a certificate of registration issued by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Should said certificate not be renewed, or be revoked,the special permit shall lapse and the Center/Dispensary shall be closed forthwith. The certificate of registration shall be posted in a conspicuous location inside the premises at each approved location. 6. Any such Center/Dispensary shall be compliant at all times with the security measures required by 105 CMR 725.000. A description of such measures, including any updates, shall be provided to the Mashpee Police Department, along with after-hours contact information. Security measures shall be implemented to deter and prevent unauthorized entrance into areas containing marijuana and theft of marijuana, and to protect the premises, registered qualifying patients, personal caregivers, and dispensary agents of the Center / Dispensary. Security measures shall include sufficient lighting of the outside perimeter of the Center/Dispensary to facilitate surveillance. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter regarding required landscaping or vegetated buffers,trees,bushes and other foliage located on the site outside the Center/Dispensary shall be located (or removed) so they do not allow for a person or persons to conceal themselves from sight within fifty (50) feet of any entrance or of any parking space designated to be utilized by registered qualifying patients, personal caregivers, and dispensary agents of the Center / Dispensary. 7. Storage of marijuana shall be in compliance with 105 CMR 725.105(D) and cultivation, production, preparation, transport or analysis shall be done in a manner to prevent diversion, theft or loss. All phases of the cultivation of marijuana shall take place in designated, locked, limited access areas that are monitored by a surveillance camera system in accordance with 105 CMR 725.110(D)(1)(d)-(i). Inside the Center / Dispensary, all marijuana and MIPs shall be kept in a limited access area inaccessible to any persons other than dispensary agents, with the exception of 21