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cannabis business operator which will specify terms for local hiring and sourcing,
<br />community benefit plans, and fees to compensate for authorized impacts on City
<br />services.
<br />4. "Adult -Use cannabis retail business" means an Adult -Use retail business that
<br />obtains a Regulatory Safety Permit and engages in the delivery or sale of Adult -Use
<br />cannabis, or an Adult -Use cannabis product, except as related Business and
<br />Professions Code Section 19319, or Health and Safety Code Sections 11362.1 through
<br />11362.45, as amended from time to time, excepting medicinal cannabis retail.
<br />5. "Authorized City of Santa Ana representative" means any police officer, city
<br />employee, contractor or agent of the city designated by the director of any city
<br />department which has the authority and responsibility to enforce provisions as set forth
<br />in this article.
<br />6. 'Business owner" means any of the following:
<br />a. A person with an aggregate ownership interest of twenty (20) percent or more in
<br />the person applying for a license or a licensee, unless the interest is solely a security,
<br />lien, or encumbrance.
<br />b. The chief executive officer of a nonprofit or other entity
<br />c. A member of the board of directors of a nonprofit
<br />d. An individual who will be participating in the direction, control, or management of
<br />the person applying for a license.
<br />7. "Cannabis" or "cannabis product' means all parts of the Cannabis sativa Linnaeus,
<br />Cannabis indica, or Cannabis Ruderaiis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the
<br />resin, whether crude or purified, extracted from any part of the plant; and every
<br />compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds,
<br />or resin. "Cannabis" also means the separated resin, whether crude or purified,
<br />obtained from marijuana. "Cannabis" also means marijuana as defined by Section
<br />11018 of the California Health and Safety Code as enacted by Chapter 14017 of the
<br />Statutes of 1972. "Cannabis" does not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber
<br />produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other
<br />compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks
<br />(except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the
<br />plant which is incapable of germination. For the purpose of this chapter, "cannabis"
<br />does not mean industrial hemp as that term is defined by Section 81000 of the
<br />California Food and Agricultural Code or Section 11018.5 of the California Health and
<br />Safety Code.
<br />8. "City" means the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation.
<br />9. "Commercial cannabis activity" means the cultivation, possession, manufacture,
<br />distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, packaging, labeling, transportation,
<br />delivery or sale of cannabis and cannabis products as provided for this Chapter.
<br />Ordinance No. NS-2973
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