For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESSORY TOBACCO SALES. A retail establishment that derives less than 30% of its gross revenue from the sale of loose tobacco, plants or herbs, and cigars, cigarettes, pipes and other smoking devices for burning tobacco and related smoking accessories, including electronic cigarettes, personal vaporizers, and electronic nicotine delivery systems, and in which the sale of other non-tobacco-related products is the primary function.
ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCTS. 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. Examples include but are not limited to: electronic cigarettes, personal vaporizers, electronic nicotine delivery systems, liquid nicotine and all other vapor products. ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCTS excludes cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, or other tobacco products.
BUSINESS. Any individual or person, as defined herein, owning or operating an enterprise that offers to sell, displays, sells, or gives any tobacco products to any person.
PERSON. An individual, and for the purposes of this chapter, the term PERSON also includes any and all proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, associations, or other legal entity.
TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Tobacco in all its forms, including but not limited to: cigarettes, cigars, cheroots, stogies, periques, granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and other smoking tobacco, snuff or snuff flour, cavendish, plug and twist tobacco, fine-cut and other chewing tobaccos, shorts, refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings, and sweeping of tobacco, and all other kinds and forms of tobacco prepared in such manner so as to be suitable for snuff, chewing, smoking, and/or otherwise ingested to any degree by any means, and tobacco purchased or offered for sale for the manufacture of cigarettes, and any paraphernalia designated, designed for, or that could be used, or is intended to be used, for the ingestion of tobacco to any degree, whether by inhalation or other means.
TOBACCO STORE. A retail establishment that derives more than 30% of its gross revenue from the sale of loose tobacco, plants or herbs, and cigars, cigarettes, pipes and other smoking devices for burning tobacco, alternative nicotine products, and related smoking accessories, including electronic cigarettes, personal vaporizers, and electronic nicotine delivery systems, and in which the sale of other products is merely incidental.
(Ord. 2598, passed 7-20-09; Am. Ord. 2779, passed 6-4-12; Am. Ord. 2956, passed 12-1-14; Am. Ord. 3006, passed 12-21-15)