§ 112.01 DEFINITIONS.
   The following words and phrases have the meanings ascribed to them when used in this chapter:
   (A)   Co-location or co-located means the siting and operation of a combination of multiple facilities or facility types at a single location.
   (B)   Facility means a location at which a license holder is licensed to operate under the MMMFLA.
   (C)   Facility plan means the plans required to be submitted to LARA in accordance with the MMMFLA rules that includes among other things diagrams, floor plans, construction details, etc.
   (D)   Facility-specific step means the portion of the application for a state operating license that follows the prequalification step and pertains to the details of the proposed facility.
   (E)   Grower means a licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that cultivates, dries, trims, or cures and packages marihuana for sale to a processor or provisioning center.
   (F)   LARA means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs and any successor agency to the department.
   (G)   Licensee means a person holding a state operating license.
   (H)   Licensing board means the medical marihuana licensing board created by the MMMFLA.
   (I)   Marihuana means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., growing or not; the seeds of that plant; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant or its seeds or resin. Marihuana does not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks, except the resin extracted from those stalks, fiber, oil, or cake, or any sterilized seed of the plant that is incapable of germination. Marihuana does not include industrial hemp grown or cultivated, or both, for research purposes under the industrial hemp research act.
   (J)   MMMA means the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, as amended MCL 333.26424 et seq.
   (K)   MMMFLA means the Michigan medical marihuana facilities licensing act, 2016 PA 281, as amended, MCL 333.27102 et seq.
   (L)   MMMFLA rules means rules, including emergency rules, promulgated by LARA to implement the MMMFLA.
   (M)   Pre-qualification step means the portion of the application for a state operating license pertaining to the applicant's financial background and the criminal history of the applicant and other associated persons.
   (N)   Processor means a licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that purchases marihuana from a grower and that extracts resin from the marihuana or creates a marihuana-infused product for sale and transfer in packaged form to a provisioning center.
   (O)   Provisioning center means a licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that purchases marihuana from a grower or processor and sells, supplies, or provides marihuana to registered qualifying patients, directly or through the patients’ registered primary caregivers. Provisioning center includes any commercial property where marihuana is sold at retail to registered qualifying patients or registered primary caregivers. A noncommercial location used by a primary caregiver to assist a qualifying patient connected to the caregiver through LARA's marihuana registration process in accordance with the MMMA is not a provisioning center for purposes of this chapter.
   (P)   Safety compliance facility means a licensee that is a commercial entity that receives marihuana from a facility or registered primary caregiver, tests it for contaminants and for tetrahydrocannabinol and other cannabinoids, returns the test results, and may return the marihuana to the facility.
   (Q)   Secure transporter means a licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that stores marihuana and transports marihuana between marihuana facilities for a fee.
   (R)   Stacked grower license means more than 1 state operating license issued to a single licensee to operate as a grower of class C-1,500 marihuana plants as specified in each license at a facility.
   (S)   State operating license or, unless the context requires a different meaning, “license” means a license that is issued under the MMMFLA that allows the licensee to operate as a grower, processor, secure transporter, provisioning center, or a safety compliance facility.
(Ord. 1038, passed 6-11-2018)