For the purposes of this Article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
COMPLIANCE CHECK. An inspection conducted with the intention of assessing retail sales of tobacco products to minors and enforcing age-of-sales laws. Compliance checks are conducted by having designated persons under the age of eighteen (18) years of age attempt to purchase tobacco products from vendors.
LICENSE. A license issued by the City of Mt. Vernon for the retail sale of tobacco products.
LICENSEE. The holder of a valid license for the retail sale of tobacco products.
MINOR. Any person under the age of eighteen (18) years of age
PERSON. Means:
(1) Any human being who, as owner of a business, delivers tobacco in any form to a minor and accepts money in payment therefor;
(2) Any human being who, as an employee for an owner of a business, delivers tobacco in any form to a minor and accepts money for the owner in payment therefor, thus completes a sale by said owner to said minor;
(3) Any corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship or body politic having legal rights and duties;
(4) Any human being who purchases for or makes a gift to a minor of tobacco in any form.
PUBLIC PLACE. An area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, including but not limited to any right-of-way, mall or shopping center, park, playground, and any other property owned by the City, any school district, or any park district.
SELF-SERVICE DISPLAYS. Open displays of tobacco products and point-of-sale tobacco promotional products that the public has access to without intervention of a store employee.
TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Any substance containing tobacco leaf, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco or dipping tobacco.
VENDING MACHINE. Any mechanical, electrical or electronic, self-service device which, upon insertion of money, tokens or any form of payment, dispenses tobacco products.
(Prior Code, Art. 30, § 2)