Unless otherwise defined herein, the terms in this chapter shall have the same meaning as set forth in R.C. § 3796.01 and 3780.01, and any rules promulgated pursuant thereto. The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them.
(a) "Academic center" has the same meaning as in R.C. § 4731.297.
(b) "Applicant" means the business entity applying for licensure per this chapter.
(c) "Board of Zoning Appeals" means the City Board of Zoning Appeals.
(d) "Cultivator" means an entity that has been issued a license by the local licensing authority to grow, harvest, package and transport marijuana as permitted under R.C. Chapter 3796.
(e) "Dispensary" means an entity that has been issued a license by the local licensing authority to dispense marijuana products as permitted under R.C. Chapter 3796.
(f) "Drug database" means the database established and maintained by the State Board of Pharmacy pursuant to R.C. § 4729.75.
(g) "License" means a license or registration granted pursuant to this chapter.
(h) "Licensed premises" means the building or portion thereof specified in an application for licensure under this chapter and used for conducting the operation of a marijuana business. The licensed premises shall be owned or in possession of the licensee.
(i) "Licensee" means the person or persons to whom a license is issued pursuant to this chapter.
(j) "Manufacture" means the process of converting harvested plant material into marijuana extract by physical or chemical means for use as an ingredient in a marijuana product.
(k) "Marijuana" means marijuana as defined in R.C. 3719.01.
(l) "Marijuana" means marijuana that is cultivated, processed, dispensed, tested, possessed, or used for a purpose.
(m) "Marijuana business" means any individual premises upon which any activity to advance or perform the cultivation or manufacturing/processing or dispensing of marijuana or marijuana products whether or not such premises have other business purposes of any nature whatsoever.
(n) "Operator" means the person or persons having authority to control the licensed premises of a marijuana business as authorized by the State Licensing Authority.
(o) "Owner" means any person who possesses a pecuniary interest, either directly or indirectly, of twenty-five percent or more in a marijuana business.
(p) "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or any other form of business organization.
(q) "Physician" means an individual authorized under R.C. Chapter 4731 to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.
(r) "Processor" means an entity that has been issued a license by the local licensing authority to manufacture marijuana products as permitted under R.C. Chapter 3796.
(s) "Safety Director" means the City Safety Director.
(t) "School" means any educational institution, public, private, secular or parochial, which offers instruction of high school grade or lower.
(u) "State university" has the same meaning as in R.C. § 3345.011.
(Ord. 2017-082. Passed 10-24-17; Ord. 2024-047. Passed 8-27-24.)