Sec. 37-3. - Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section. All citations to federal and state law refer to the act, statute, or regulations as may be amended from time to time.

"Agricultural commissioner" means the agricultural commissioner-sealer of the Sonoma County Department of Agriculture/Weights and Measures, or his or her authorized representative.

"Applicant" means a person applying for registration under this chapter.

"Cultivation" includes an activity involving the propagation, planting, growing, breeding, or other development of industrial hemp plants or propagative plant material.

"Cultivation area" means the area designated in the registration materials for cultivation.

"Established agricultural research institution" has the same meaning as that term is defined in California Food and Agricultural Code Section 81000.

"Female industrial hemp plant" means an industrial hemp plant that possesses only female pistillate flowers and is capable of bearing seed, and is not a male industrial hemp plant.

"Female propagative plant material" means propagative plant material that is bred, grown, or otherwise developed to become a female industrial hemp plant.

"Final enforcement order" means a notice and order, administrative citation, or other similar notice that a violation exists and must be abated that was not appealed, a hearing officer decision upholding the finding of a violation, a civil judgment finding a violation, or a settlement agreement that admits a violation.

"Incidental activities" includes harvesting, drying, curing, grading, trimming, wholesale packaging, and similar preparation of industrial hemp, but not including agricultural processing as defined by Chapter 26.

"Industrial hemp" or "hemp" has the same meaning as that term is defined in California Food and Agricultural Code Section 81000.

"Institution of higher education" has the same meaning as that term is defined in the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 Section 101 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1001).

"Male industrial hemp plant" means an industrial hemp plant that has male staminate flowers or is otherwise capable of producing pollen.

"Nursery stock" has the same meaning as that term is defined in California Food and Agricultural Code Section 5005.

"Outdoor(s)" means not within a structure, or within a structure that is not fully enclosed, such as a hoop house.

"Person" includes an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, estate, trust, business, business trust, receiver, syndicate, collective, cooperative, institution, including an established agricultural research institution, or other group or entity, or combination acting as a unit.

"Pollen" means the fine powdery substance discharged from a male plant containing male gametes that is capable of causing a female plant, or female part of a plant, to produce seeds.

"Propagative plant material" includes live plants, seeds, seedlings, clones, cuttings, transplants, or other propagules used to establish plants for planting.

"Registrant" means a person who is registered to cultivate industrial hemp under this chapter.

"Registration" means the verification of the ability to cultivate hemp in accordance with this chapter and the registrant's registration materials.

"Registration form" means an application to register for industrial hemp cultivation pursuant to this chapter.

"Registration materials" means the registration form and all plans and specifications, maps, and other information and materials on the list of required registration contents and all other information necessary to verify compliance with this chapter.

"Site" means the area(s) designated in the registration materials on part of a parcel or adjoining parcels under single ownership or control that may contain industrial hemp, including, for example, the cultivation area(s) and structure(s) used for incidental activities.

"State industrial hemp laws" means California Food and Agricultural Code Section 81000 et seq. and Title 3 of the California Code of Regulations Section 4900 et seq.

"THC" means the crystalline compound tetrahydrocannabinol that is the main psychoative active ingredient in cannabis.

"Tree" has the same meaning as that term is defined in Chapter 36.

(Ord. No. 6298, § IV(Exh.), 2-4-2020)