Section 1399-AA. Definitions  


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  • 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.