For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Cannabis" means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin. It does not include:
(1) Industrial hemp, as defined in Section 11018.5 of the California Health & Safety Code; or
(2) The weight of any other ingredient combined with cannabis to prepare topical or oral administrations, food, drink, or other product.
(b) "Cannabis accessories" means any equipment, products or materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, smoking, vaporizing, or containing cannabis, or for ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing cannabis or cannabis products into the human body.
(c) "Cannabis products" means cannabis that has undergone a process whereby the plant material has been transformed into a concentrate, including, but not limited to, concentrated cannabis, or an edible or topical product containing cannabis or concentrated cannabis and other ingredients.
(d) “Commercial cannabis activity” includes the cultivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, transportation, delivery or sale of cannabis and cannabis products.
(e) “Cultivation” means any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis.
(f) “Delivery” means the commercial transfer of cannabis or cannabis products to a customer. "Delivery" also includes the use by a retailer of any technology platform owned and controlled by the retailer, or independently licensed under California law that enables customers to arrange for or facilitate the commercial transfer by a licensed retailer of cannabis or cannabis products.
(g) “Distribution” means the procurement, sale, and transport of cannabis and cannabis products between entities for commercial use purposes.
(h) “Licensee” means the holder of any state issued license related to cannabis activities, including but not limited to licenses issued under Division 10 of the Business & Professions Code.
(i) “Manufacture” means to compound, blend, extract, infuse, or otherwise make or prepare a cannabis product.
(j) “Person” includes any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular.
(k) “Private residence” means a house, an apartment unit, a mobile home, or other similar dwelling.
(l) "Sale" includes any transaction whereby, for any consideration, title to cannabis is transferred from one person to another, and includes the delivery of cannabis or cannabis products pursuant to an order placed for the purchase of the same and soliciting or receiving an order for the same, but does not include the return of cannabis or cannabis products by a licensee to the licensee from whom such cannabis or cannabis product was purchased.
(m) Any term defined in this Section also means the very term as defined in the California Business & Professions Code or the California Health & Safety Code, unless otherwise specified.
(§ 2, Ord. 3059, eff. November 3, 2016, § 2, Ord. 3236, eff. January 19, 2023)