For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DISTRIBUTE. To give, sell, deliver, dispense or issue or offer to give, sell, deliver, dispense or issue, or cause or hire any person to give, sell, deliver, dispense, issue or offer to give, sell, deliver, dispense or issue.
LICENSEE. Any person obtaining a tobacco product retailer's license under this subchapter.
PERSON. An individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, trustee, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, excepting the United States of America, the State of Illinois, and any political subdivision thereof.
PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTIFICATION. Any officially issued card containing the bearer's date of birth that includes a photograph of the person seeking to purchase tobacco products and that is accepted as proof of age under Illinois law.
POINT OF SALE. A store, building, boat, vending machine or any other separate place of business maintained by a seller from which tobacco
products are made available for sale or distribution to consumers.
POINT OF SALE does not include separate cash registers or service counters within a store or other place of business.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any area to which the public is invited or permitted.
RETAILER. Any person who sells tobacco products to individuals for personal consumption, or who operates a facility containing vending machines that dispense tobacco products or self-service displays of tobacco products in unincorporated Cook County.
TAVERN. An enclosed place of business kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public as a place that primarily serves alcoholic liquor for consumption on the premises and in which providing entertainment or serving of food in only incidental or secondary to the sale of alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption. Examples of places of business not deemed to be taverns within the definitions of this paragraph include, but are not limited to, restaurants, catering halls, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, discotheques, theaters and arenas.
TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Any substance containing tobacco leaf, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and/or smokeless tobacco.
TOBACCO PRODUCTS SAMPLE. A tobacco product distributed to members of the general public at no cost or at nominal cost for purposes of promoting the product.
VENDING MACHINE. Any mechanical, electronic or self-service device which upon insertion of money, tokens or any other form of payment, automatically dispenses tobacco products.
(Ord. 04-843, passed 2-12-2004)