(a) As used in this chapter:
(1) "Compliance Check” means the system the city uses to investigate and ensure that those authorized to sell licensed products are following and complying with the requirements of this ordinance. Compliance checks involve the use of persons under the age of twenty-one (21) who purchase or attempt to purchase licensed products. Compliance checks may also be conducted by the city or other units of government for educational, research, and training purposes or for investigating or enforcing federal, state, or local laws and regulations relating to licensed products.
(2) "Delivery Sale" means the sale of any licensed product to any person for personal consumption and not for resale when the sale is conducted by any means other than an in-person, over-the counter sales transaction in a licensed retail establishment. Delivery sale includes but is not limited to the sale of any licensed product when the sale is conducted by telephone, other voice transmission, mail, the internet, or app-based service. Delivery sale includes delivery by licensees or third parties by any means, including curbside pick-up.
(3) "Electronic smoking device" means any device that can be used to deliver aerosolized or vaporized nicotine or any other substance to the person inhaling from the device including an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic hookah, vaping pen, or electronic pipe. The phrase includes any component, part, or accessory of such a device, whether or not sold separately, and includes any substance intended to be aerosolized or vaporized during the use of the device. The phrase does not include any product that is a drug, device, or combination product, as those terms are defined or described in 21 U.S.C. 321 and 353(g).
(4) "Licensed Products" means the term that collectively refers to any tobacco product.
(5) "Movable Place of Business" means any form of business that is operated out of a kiosk, truck, van, automobile or other type of vehicle or transportable shelter and that is not a fixed address or other permanent type of structure licensed for over-the-counter sales transactions.
(6) "Person" means any natural person.
(7) "Retail Establishment" means any place of business where licensed products are available for sale to the general public. Retail Establishment includes but is not limited to grocery stores, tobacco products shops, convenience stores, liquor stores, gasoline service stations, bars, restaurants and establishment where licensed products are consumed on the premises, such as hookah bars.
(8) "Sale" means any transfer of goods for money, trade, barter or other consideration.
(9) "Self-Service Display" means the open display of licensed products in a retail establishment in any manner where any person has access to the licensed products without the assistance or intervention of the licensee or the licensee's employee and where a physical exchange of the licensed product from the licensee or the licensee's employee to the customer is not required in order to access the licensed products.
(10) "Tobacco Product" means any product that is made or derived from tobacco or that contains any form of nicotine, if it is intended for human consumption or is likely to be consumed, whether smoked, heated, chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, or ingested by any other means, including, but not limited to, a cigarette, an electronic smoking device, a cigar, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, or snus. The phrase also means any component or accessory used in the consumption of a tobacco product, such as filters, rolling papers, pipes, blunt or hemp wraps, and liquids used in electronic smoking devices, whether or not they contain nicotine. The phrase does not include any product that is a drug, device, or combination product, as those terms are defined or described in 21 U.S.C. 321 and 353(g).
(11) "Vending Machine" means any mechanical, electric or electronic, or other type of device that dispenses licensed products upon the insertion of money, tokens, or other form of payment into or onto the device by the person seeking to purchase the licensed product.
(Ord. 2022-071. Passed 7-20-22.)