The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
APPLICANT. The natural person in whose name a permit would be issued.
COMPLETE APPLICATION. A document prepared in accordance with the rules and the forms and instructions provided by the city, including any supporting documentation required as well as the application fee.
DISPENSARY. An entity that has been licensed by the Oklahoma State Health Department pursuant to 63 O.S. § 421A and permitted by the city pursuant to this chapter, which allows the entity to purchase medical marijuana from a processor permittee or grower permittee and sell medical marijuana only to qualified patients and caregivers.
DISPENSE. The selling of medical marijuana or a medical marijuana product to a qualified patient or the patient’s designated caregiver that is packaged in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to or use by a qualified patient.
DOMICILE. A person’s true, fixed, primary permanent home and place of habitation and the tax parcel on which it is located. It is the place where the person intends to remain and to which the person expects to return when the person leaves without intending to establish a new domicile elsewhere.
ENTITY. An individual, general partnership, a limited partnership, a limited liability company, a trust, an estate, an association, a corporation or any other legal or commercial entity.
GROWER or COMMERCIAL GROWER. An entity that has been licensed by the Oklahoma State Department of Health and permitted by the city, which allows the entity to grow, harvest and package medical marijuana to a dispensary, processor or researcher.
MANUFACTURE. The process of converting harvested plant material into medical marijuana concentrate by physical or chemical means for use as an ingredient in a medical marijuana product.
MARIJUANA. All parts of a plant of the genus cannabis, whether growing or not; the seeds of a plant of that type; the resin extracted from a part of a plant of that type; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of a plant of that type or of its seeds or resin. MARIJUANA does not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oils or cake made from the seeds of the plant, or any other compound, manufacture, salt derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks, except the resin extracted from the mature stalks, fiber, oil or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant that is incapable of germination.
MATURE PLANT. Harvestable female marijuana plant that is flowering. MATURE PLANTS are not authorized under this section prior to 60 days after the enactment of 63 O.S. §§ 420A et seq.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA. Marijuana that is grown, processed, dispensed, tested, possessed or used for a medical purpose.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA BUSINESS. Any business licensed by the Oklahoma State Health Department and permitted by the city to dispense, grow, research or process medical marijuana.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CONCENTRATE (CONCENTRATE). A substance obtained by separating cannabinoids from any part of the marijuana plant by physical or chemical means, so as to deliver a product with a cannabinoid concentration greater than the raw plant material from which it is derived, intended to be refined for use as an ingredient in a medical marijuana product and not for administration to a qualified patient.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA PRODUCT. A product that contains cannabinoids that have been extracted from plant material or the resin therefrom by physical or chemical means and is intended for administration to a qualified patient, including, but not limited to, oils, tinctures, edibles, pills, topical forms, gels, creams, forms medically appropriate for administration by vaporization or nebulizer, patches, tinctures and liquids excluding live plant forms.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA WASTE. Unused, surplus, returned or out-of-date marijuana; recalled marijuana; unused marijuana; plant debris of the plant of the genus cannabis, including dead plants and all unused plant parts and roots; and any wastewater generated during growing and processing.
PERMITTEE. Any natural born person or entity that holds a marijuana permit provided for in this chapter.
PRIVATE SCHOOL. An elementary, middle or high school maintained by private individuals, religious organizations or corporations, funded at least in part, by fees or tuition, and open only to pupils selected and admitted based on religious affiliations or other particular qualifications.
PROCESSOR. An entity that has been licensed by Oklahoma State Department of Health and permitted by the city, which allows the entity to: purchase marijuana from a commercial grower; prepare, manufacture, package, sell to and deliver medical marijuana products to a dispensary permittee or other processor permittee; and may process marijuana received from a qualified patient into a medical marijuana concentrate, for a fee.
PUBLIC SCHOOL. An elementary, middle or high school established under state law, regulated by the local state authorities in the various political subdivisions, funded and maintained by public taxation, and open and free to all children of the particular district where the school is located.
RESIDENT. An individual who is an income taxpayer in the state and can provide proof of residency as required by 63 Oklahoma Statutes §§ 420A et seq., and OAC 310:681-1-6.
RETAILER. As used in 63 O.S. §§ 421A et seq., means a DISPENSARY.
REVOCATION. The city’s final decision that any permit issued pursuant to this chapter is rescinded because the individual or entity does not comply with the applicable requirements in this chapter.
SCHOOL. Either public or private nurseries, kindergartens, elementary, which may include either K - 6 or K - 8, secondary schools and technology center schools, not to exceed two years of junior college work, night schools, adult and other special classes, vocational and technical instruction and such other school classes and instruction as may be authorized by laws which are now in effect or which may hereafter be enacted.
SEEDLING. An immature marijuana plant that has no flowers.
STATE QUESTION. Oklahoma State Question No. 788 and Initiative Petition Number 412.
(Prior Code, § 3-12A-3) (Ord. 863, passed 9-18-2018)