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1. "Applicant" means a person who is required to file an application for a permit <br />under this article, including an individual owner, managing partner, officer of a <br />corporation, or any other operator, manager, employee, or agent of an Adult -Use <br />cannabis retail business. <br />2. "Adult -Use" means cannabis or cannabis products that are intended to be used <br />for non -medicinal purposes by a person 21 years of age or older. <br />3. "Adult -Use Cannabis Retailer Operating Agreement" means the written <br />agreement entered into by and between the City and the Adult -Use cannabis <br />retail business operator which will specify terms and conditions for operating the <br />retail business, including local hiring and sourcing, community benefit plans, and <br />fees to compensate for anticipated impacts on City services. <br />4. "Adult -Use cannabis retail activity" includes the delivery or sale of adult -use <br />cannabis or cannabis product, except as set forth in section 19319 of the <br />Business and Professions Code, related to qualifying patients and primary <br />caregivers, excepting medicinal cannabis retail. <br />5. "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 - <br />Use 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 <br />through 11362.45, as amended from time to time, excepting medicinal cannabis <br />retail. <br />6. "Authorized City of Santa Ana representative" any police officer, city <br />employee or agent of the city designated by the director of any city department <br />which has the authority and responsibility to enforce provisions as set forth in this <br />article. <br />7. "Business owner" means any of the following: <br />a. A person with an aggregate ownership interest of 20 percent or more in the <br />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. <br />c. A member of the board of directors. <br />d. An individual who will be participating in the direction, control, or management <br />of the person applying for a license. <br />8. "Cannabis" or "cannabis product' means all parts of the Cannabis sativa <br />Linnaeus, Cannabis Indica, or Cannabis Ruderalis, whether growing or not; the <br />seeds thereof; the resin, whether crude or purified, extracted from any part of the <br />plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation <br />of the plant, its seeds, or resin. "Cannabis" also means the separated resin, <br />Ordinance No. NS -XXX <br />11E-6 Page 4 of 25 <br />