When used in this article, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCT: A product or device not consisting of or containing tobacco that provides for the ingestion into the body of nicotine, whether by chewing, smoking, absorbing, dissolving, inhaling, snorting, sniffing, or by any other means. This does not include tobacco products as that term is defined in this section or any product approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a nontobacco product for sale as a tobacco cessation product, as a tobacco dependence product, or for other medicinal purposes.
CIGARETTE VENDING MACHINE: Any mechanical container or device used or intended to be used for retail sales of cigarettes, the operation of which is governed or controlled by the deposit of a coin or token.
MINORS: Any person twenty (20) years of age or under.
OPERATOR: Any person who owns a cigarette vending machine and who consigns such machine for use and undertakes to maintain it in proper operating condition and keep it supplied with such cigarettes as are ordered by the retail tobacco dealer while on consignment to him.
OWNER: An operator or retail tobacco dealer who has acquired possession and exclusive control of a cigarette vending machine by purchase, lease or otherwise.
TOBACCO DEALER: Any person selling, offering for sale, exposing for sale or keeping, with the intention of selling or exchanging at retail, cigarettes, cigars or tobacco in any form. Tobacco dealer shall also include the sale of alternative nicotine products as defined herein.
(Ord. 932, 5-14-1974; amd. Ord. 2529, 1-14-1997; Ord. 3391, 9-9-2014; Ord. 3527, 11-14-2017, eff. 1-1-2018)