PROVINCETOWN — Six marijuana shops have lined up to open at various locations in town now that the select board and town counsel have firmed up the terms of a host community agreement, which the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) requires as part of the permitting.

Curaleaf (previously known as Mass Organic Therapy) wants to operate a dispensary at 170 Commercial St.; Green Harbor Dispensary at 45 Court St.; the Haven Center at 308 Commercial St.; Heal AU at 48 Shank Painter Road; Hennep at 246 Commercial St.; and Verdant Medical at 44 Captain Bertie’s Way.

If all of these businesses open, there will be three on Commercial Street and three in less high-traffic areas. The select board set the host agreements to provide a slight financial boost to those off Commercial Street.

Assistant Town Manager David Gardner said during the Oct. 22 select board meeting that it is his understanding that all six businesses are proposing to sell both recreational and medical marijuana. So each operation will require two separate licenses from the state and town. To be licensed, a marijuana establishment must obtain a host agreement first, according to the state CCC. These are negotiated contracts that allow cannabis businesses to operate under a set of local guidelines.

The select board approved the draft host community agreement by a unanimous vote.

Under the terms of the agreement, each business will agree to offer community benefits, which are activities, business practices and donations that can help town residents.

Among the approved community benefits listed in the host agreement are operating on a year-round basis and ensuring that an inventory of medical marijuana is reserved and available for registered patients and their caregivers. Also, the businesses must provide free or reduced cost medical marijuana for those with “verified financial hardships” and special needs as required by the state.

The hardship provision defines each person receiving the benefit as “an individual that is a recipient of MassHealth or supplemental security income, or the individual’s income does not exceed 300 percent of the federal poverty level, adjusted for family size,” according to the host agreement. “Patients with special needs will be required to provide documentation from a health care provider to prove the patient has special needs.”

The select board voted 3-2 to require the pot shops operating on Commercial Street to offer more free and discounted products for those patients who qualify as having financial hardships. Those who are operating in the general commercial zone, including Shank Painter Road, must offer discounted but not free marijuana.

“There’s more potential for profit on Commercial Street and I think we should give incentive to those off Commercial Street,” said select board member Lise King.

Select board members Cheryl Andrews and Louise Venden voted against the motion.

Provincetown’s host agreement also includes a community impact fee of three percent of gross revenue to be paid quarterly, which voters upped from two percent at the 2017 special town meeting. This applies to retail sales only.

The impact fee is limited to five years; after that it will need to be renegotiated. The money could be used for infrastructure systems, law enforcement costs, fire protection services, inspectional services, public health or addiction services, among other things.

The host agreement also requires each business to offer community support and that it contribute a minimum of one percent annually to charitable causes. The donations must go to nonprofit organizations that provide social services to the community.

The company must also agree “to provide no less than 100 hours annually of community service activities including but not limited to: town of Provincetown-sponsored educational programs on public health and drug abuse prevention, senior assistance, youth programs, community cleanup, and veteran’s assistance, or participation on town boards by one of its employees,” reads the host agreement.

Gardner said he could not comment on when the first shop might open.

“The establishments are anxious to achieve this milestone and inform the state so they can move forward in their licensing,” he said.

Following approval of its host community agreement, each business will need to secure its final state license, which Gardner said is still pending at the state level, and then come to the town for a local license.

Marijuana shop licensing is very strict on the state level, said town counsel Katherine Laughman of KP Law.

“It’s more stringent than alcohol,” she said.

Select board member Tom Donegan said the town’s licensing dept. is currently working to create a license specifically geared towards marijuana businesses.

“Under the current system the state has total control,” he said by phone on Tuesday. “Because Provincetown is a unique rural and city mix we want more local control and that means licensing at a local level. If a business does something it’s not supposed to be doing the licensing board can intervene.”

Donegan said it’s hard to foresee the impact these businesses will have on Provincetown.

“Part of this discussion is that no one really knows how big this is going to be or what it is going to look like,” he said. “How many people are going to come here from up Cape? And how many tourists? We just don’t know.”