9660.1. - Definitions.

For purposes of this division, the following definitions shall apply.

A.

"Commercial marijuana activity" means the cultivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, packaging, transportation, delivery or sale of marijuana and marijuana products, and includes the activities of any business licensed by the State or other government entity under Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code, or any other provision of State law that regulates the licensing of marijuana businesses.

B.

"Concentrated cannabis" means cannabis that has undergone a process to concentrate one or more active cannabinoids, thereby increasing the product's potency. Resin from granular trichomes from a cannabis plant is a concentrate.

C.

"Cultivation" means any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of marijuana.

D.

"Delivery" means the commercial transfer of marijuana or marijuana products to a customer. "Delivery" also includes the use by a retailer of any technology platform owned and controlled by the retailer.

E.

"Distribution" means the procurement, sale, and transport of marijuana and marijuana products between entities licensed under Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code, as the same may be amended from time to time.

F.

"Fully enclosed and secure structure" means a space within a building, greenhouse, or other structure which has a complete roof enclosure supported by connecting walls extending from the ground to the roof, which is secure against unauthorized entry, provides complete visual screening, and which is accessible only through one or more lockable doors and inaccessible to minors.

G.

"Indoors" means within a fully enclosed and secure structure.

H.

"Manufacture" means to compound, blend, extract, infuse, or otherwise make or prepare a marijuana product.

I.

"Marijuana" means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin, whether crude or purified, extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or resin. "Marijuana" also means the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from marijuana, and any product containing marijuana. "Marijuana" includes marijuana that is used for medical, nonmedical, or other purposes.

"Marijuana" does not include the mature stalk of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is incapable of germination. "Marijuana" also does not include industrial hemp, as defined in California Health and Safety Code section 11018.5, as the same may be amended from time to time.

J.

"Marijuana 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 marijuana, or for ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana or marijuana products into the human body.

K.

"Marijuana product" means marijuana 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 marijuana or concentrated cannabis and other ingredients.

L.

"MAUCRSA" means the Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, as codified in Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code, as the same may be amended from time to time.

M.

"Outdoors" means any location that is not within a fully enclosed and secure structure.

N.

"Person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, collective, cooperative, club, society, organization, non-profit, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular.

O.

"Private residence" means a house, an apartment unit, a mobile home, or other similar dwelling, that is lawfully used as a residence.

(Ord. No. 17-429, § 4, 8-23-2017)