§ 10-81. Definitions

For the purposes of this article each of the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless the context in which used clearly indicates a different meaning:

Carton means a package containing ten or more individual packs of cigarettes.

Location means the building, room, space, or area where tobacco is sold at retail, identified by the address and under the control of one person.

Minor means any individual, without regard to sex, who has not attained the age of 18 years.

Operator means the person in legal possession and control of a location by reason of ownership, lease, contract, or agreement for the sale of tobacco therein at retail.

Self-service vending mean the display for sale of tobacco products which are accessible to the public without the need of assistance by or intervention of any employee.

Tobacco means cigarettes; cigars; cheroots; stogies; perique; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and other smoking tobacco; snuff; snuff flour; cavendish, plug and twist tobacco; fine cut or other chewing tobaccos; shorts; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco; and other kinds and forms of tobacco, prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing or smoking in a pipe or cigarette papers.

Tobacco shop means a self-contained, independent retail facility, as opposed to a department within a larger retail establishment, that is not more than 1,000 square feet in area, in which tobacco is offered for sale, with or without other nontobacco products, which includes open air display of individual products for inspection and selection by patrons, and which is continuously staffed by an employee from which persons under 18 years of age are prohibited from entering, and which otherwise complies with the requirements of Minn. Stats. § 461.18, subd. 1(d).

Tobacco vending machine mean any kind of device or mechanical machine which upon the insertion therein coins, tokens or other objects will release packages or otherwise, tobacco for the purpose of selling the same at retail.

(Ord. No. 1400.04, § 01, 4-26-2000)