1399-aa. Definitions. As used in this article:
1. "Enforcement officer" means the enforcement officer designated pursuant to article thirteen-E of this chapter to enforce such article and hold hearings pursuant thereto; provided that in a city with a population of more than one million it shall also mean an officer or employee or any agency of such city that is authorized to enforce any local law of such city related to the regulation of the sale of tobacco products to minors.
2. "Food service establishment" means any area, including outdoor seating areas, in which the business is the sale of food for on-premises consumption.
3. "Person" means a person, firm, company, corporation, partnership, sole proprietor, limited partnership or association.
4. "Private club" means an organization with no more than an insignificant portion of its membership comprised of people under the age of eighteen years that regularly receives dues and/or payments from its members for the use of space, facilities and services.
5. "Tobacco products" means one or more cigarettes or cigars, bidis, chewing tobacco, powdered tobacco, nicotine water or any other tobacco products.
6. "Herbal cigarette" means any product made primarily of an herb or combination of herbs, and intended to be smoked in any of the methods that tobacco is smoked, including but not limited to, as a cigarette, cigar or pipe filler.
7. "Bidis" means a product containing tobacco that is wrapped in temburni leaf (diospyros melanoxylon) or tendra leaf (diospyros exculpra), or any other product offered to consumers as "beedies" or "bidis".
8. "Tobacco business" means a sole proprietorship, corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other enterprise in which the primary activity is the sale, manufacture or promotion of tobacco, tobacco products and accessories, either at wholesale or retail, and in which the sale, manufacture or promotion of other products is merely incidental.
9. "Factory" means any mill or other manufacturing establishment where one or more persons are employed in manufacturing including making, altering, repairing, finishing, bottling, canning, cleaning or laundering any article or thing.
10. "Gutka" means a product containing lime paste, spices, areca and tobacco.
11. "Nicotine water" means bottled water that is laced with nicotine.
12. "Shisha" means any product made primarily of tobacco or other leaf, or any combination thereof, smoked or intended to be smoked in a hookah or water pipe.
13. "Electronic cigarette" or "e-cigarette" means an electronic device that delivers vapor which is inhaled by an individual user, and shall include any refill, cartridge and any other component of such a device.
Last modified: February 3, 2019