For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADULT. A person 18 years of age or older.
APPLICANT. A person as defined herein, who completes or signs an application for a license to sell tobacco-related products individually or on behalf of a business.
BUSINESS. The business of selling tobacco-related products.
LICENSE HOLDER. The owner of the business.
MOVABLE PLACE OF BUSINESS. A business whose physical location is not permanent or is capable of being moved or changed.
PERSON. One or more natural persons; a partnership, including a limited partnership; a corporation, including a foreign, domestic or nonprofit corporation; a trust; a political subdivision of the state; or any other business organization.
SELF-SERVICE MERCHANDISING. A method of displaying tobacco-related products so that they are accessible to the public without the intervention of an applicant, license holder or their agents or employees.
TOBACCO-RELATED PRODUCT. Cigarettes, cigars, cheroots, stogies, perique, granulated, plug cut, crimpt cut, ready, rubbed and other smoking tobacco; snuff, snuff flower, cavendish, plug and twist tobacco; fine cut and other chewing tobaccos; shorts, refuse scripts, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco; and other kinds and forms of tobacco, prepared in a manner as to be suitable for chewing, sniffing or smoking in a pipe; rolling paper or other tobacco-related devices.
VENDING MACHINE. Any mechanical, electric or electronic, self-service device which, upon insertion of money, tokens or any other form of payment, dispenses tobacco products and including vending machines equipped with manual, electric or electronic locking devices.
(Prior Code, § 6.23, Subd. 2) (Ord. 200, effective 5-21-1999)