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Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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<br />1. "Applicant" means a person who is required to file an application for a permit under
<br />this article, including an individual owner, managing partner, officer of a corporation,
<br />or any other operator, manager, employee, or agent of a commercial cannabis
<br />business. "Adult-Use" means cannabis or cannabis products that are intended to be
<br />used for non-medicinal purposes by a person twenty-one (21) years of age or older.
<br />3. "Adult-Use Cannabis Retailer Operating Agreement" or "Operating Agreement"
<br />means the agreement entered into by and between the City and the commercial
<br />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 obtains
<br />a Regulatory Safety Permit and engages in the delivery or sale of Adult-Use cannabis,
<br />or an Adult-Use cannabis product, except as related Business and Professions Code
<br />Section 19319, or Health and Safety Code Sections 11362.1 through 11362.45, as
<br />amended from time to time, excepting medicinal cannabis retail.
<br />5. "Authorized City of Santa Ana representative" means any police officer, city employee,
<br />contractor or agent of the city designated by the director of any city department which
<br />has the authority and responsibility to enforce provisions as set forth 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
<br />security, 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 Ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof;
<br />the 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
<br />seeds, 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"
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