The Department shall promulgate regulations regarding all of the following:

(1) Governing the manner in which the Department shall consider petitions from the public to add debilitating medical conditions or treatments to the list of debilitating medical conditions under § 4902A(3) of this title, including public notice of and an opportunity to comment in public hearings on the petitions.

(2) a. Establishing the form and content of registration and renewal applications submitted under this chapter.

b. For compassionate use cards, governing the intervals at which a physician must re-evaluate the efficacy of medical marijuana treatment and the documentation of the re-evaluations, and may include intervals of different lengths for the conditions for which a patient receives a compassionate use registry identification card.

(3) Governing the manner in which it shall consider applications for and renewals of registry identification cards.

(4) Governing all of the following matters related to registered compassion centers and security compliance facilities, with the goal of protecting against diversion and theft, without imposing an undue burden on the registered compassion centers or compromising the confidentiality of cardholders:

a. Minimum oversight requirements for registered compassion centers.

b. Minimum recordkeeping requirements for registered compassion centers.

c. Minimum security requirements for registered compassion centers, which shall include that each registered compassion center location must be protected by a fully operational security alarm system.

d. The competitive scoring process addressed in §§ 4914A and 4915A of this title.

e. Procedures for suspending or terminating the registration certificates or registry identification cards of cardholders, registered compassion centers, and registered safety compliance facilities that commit multiple or serious violations of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations promulgated pursuant to this section.

f. The design and security features of medical marijuana containers to be provided by the compassion centers.

(5) Requiring application and renewal fees for registry identification cards, and registered compassion center registration certificates, according to all of the following:

a. The total fees collected must generate revenues sufficient to offset all expenses of implementing and administering this chapter, except that fee revenue may be offset or supplemented by private donations.

b. The total amount of revenue from application, renewal, and registration fees for compassion centers and security compliance facilities must be sufficient to implement and administer the compassion center and safety compliance facility provisions of this chapter.

c. The Department may establish a sliding scale of patient application and renewal fees based upon a qualifying patient’s household income.

d. The Department may accept donations from private sources to reduce application and renewal fees.

e. The total amount of revenue from application, renewal, and registration fees for compassion centers, security compliance facilities, and registry identification cards will be deposited to a special account within the Department for the operation of the program created by this chapter and shall be used as necessary to support program operations and growth.

78 Del. Laws, c. 23, § 1; 82 Del. Laws, c. 213, § 6.