For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ENCLOSED, LOCKED FACILITY. A closet, room, or other comparable, stationary, and fully enclosed area equipped with secured locks or other functioning security devices that permit access only by a registered primary caregiver or registered qualifying patient. Marihuana plants grown outdoors are considered to be in an ENCLOSED, LOCKED FACILITY if they are not visible to the unaided eye from an adjacent property when viewed by an individual at ground level or from a permanent structure and are grown within a stationary structure that is enclosed on all sides, except for the base, by chain-link fencing, wooden slats, or a similar material that prevents access by the general public and that is anchored, attached, or affixed to the ground; located on land that is owned, leased, or rented by either the registered qualifying patient or a person designated through the departmental registration process as the primary caregiver for the registered qualifying patient or patients for whom the marihuana plants are grown; and equipped with functioning locks or other security devices that restrict access to only the
registered qualifying patient or the registered primary caregiver who owns, leases, or rents the property on which the structure is located.
MEDICAL MARIHUANA. That term as defined in section 7106 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, M.C.L.A. § 333.7106.
MEDICAL MARIHUANA FACILITY. Any building, parcel, property, location, within the township, used to cultivate, manufacture, extract, sell, transport medical marijuana for commercial purposes.
PRIMARY CAREGIVER or CAREGIVER. A person who is at least 21 years old and who has agreed to assist with a patient’s medical use of marihuana and who has not been convicted of any felony within the past 10 years and has never been convicted of a felony involving illegal drugs or a felony that is an assaultive crime as defined in section 9a of chapter X of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, M.C.L.A.§ 770.9a.
QUALIFYING PATIENT or PATIENT. A person who has been diagnosed by a physician as having a debilitating medical condition.
TOWNSHIP. The Township of Kochville, Saginaw County, Michigan.
(Ord. 21-04, passed 7-19-2021)