For purposes of this chapter:
(a) "Director" shall mean the Safety Director, "Commissioner" shall mean the Building Commissioner, and "Chief shall mean the Chief of Police of the City".
(b) "Disqualifying offense," "cultivator," "processor," "dispensary," and "testing laboratory" shall have the same meanings as in Ohio Admin. Code 3796:1-1-01 or subsequent similar regulations.
(c) "Licensee" means, with respect to a medical marijuana dispensary license issued under this chapter, a person in whose name a license to operate a medical marijuana dispensary has been issued, as well as the individual(s) designated on the license application as principally responsible for the operation of the medical marijuana dispensary.
(d) "Medical marijuana" shall have the same meaning as in R. C. § 3796.01.
(e) "Operate" means to control or hold primary responsibility for the operation of a medical marijuana dispensary, either as a business entity, as an individual, or as part of a group of individuals with shared responsibility. "Operate" or "cause to be operated" shall mean to cause to function or to put or keep in operation. Operator means any persons on the premises of a medical marijuana dispensary who is authorized to exercise overall operational control or hold primary responsibility for the operation of a medical marijuana dispensary or who causes to function or who puts or keeps in operation the business. A person may be found to be operating or causing to be operated a medical marijuana dispensary whether or not that person is an owner, part owner, or licensee of the business.
(f) "Person" means an individual, proprietorship, partnership, firm, association, joint stock company, corporation or combination of individuals of whatever form or character.
(g) "School," "church," "public library," "public playground," and "public park" shall have the same meanings as in R.C. § 3796.30.
(h) "Transfer of ownership or control" of a medical marijuana dispensary shall mean any of the following:
(1) The sale, lease, sublease or assignment of the business;
(2) The transfer of securities which constitute a controlling interest in the business, whether by sale, exchange, or similar means; or
(3) The establishment of a trust, gift, management contract or other similar legal device which transfers the ownership or control of the business, except for transfer by bequest or other operation of law upon the death of the person possessing the ownership or control.
(Ord. 2017-49. Passed 1-2-2018.)