YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE
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Chemical Synthesis: means production of a new particular molecule by adding to, subtracting from, or
changing the structure of a precursor molecule.
County: means Yavapai County, Arizona.
Consume, Consuming, and Consumption: mean the act of ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing
marijuana into the human body.
Consumer: means an individual who is at least twenty-one years of age and who purchases marijuana
or marijuana products.
Cultivate and Cultivation: mean to propagate, breed, grow, prepare, and package marijuana.
Deliver and Delivery: mean the transportation, transfer or provision of marijuana or marijuana products
to a consumer at a location other than the designated retail location of a marijuana establishment.
Department: means the State of Arizona Department of Health Services or its successor agency.
Dual Licensee: means an entity that holds both a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary registration
and a marijuana establishment license.
Enclosed Area: means a building, greenhouse, or other structure that has:
1. A complete roof enclosure supported by connecting walls that are constructed of solid material
extending from the ground to the roof.
2. Is secure against unauthorized entry.
3. Has a foundation, slab, or equivalent base to which the floor is securely attached.
4. Meets performance standards ensuring that cultivation and processing activities cannot be and
are not perceptible from the structure in terms of not being visible from public view without
using binoculars, aircraft or other optical aids and is equipped with a lock or other security
device that prevents access by minors.
Extraction: means the process of extracting or separating resin from marijuana to produce or process
any form of marijuana concentrates using water, lipids, gases, solvents, or other chemicals or chemical
processes.
Industrial Hemp: the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with
a Total Delta-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of not more than three tenths’ percent (0.3%)
on a dry-weight basis.
Manufacture and Manufacturing: mean to compound, blend, extract, infuse or otherwise make or
prepare a marijuana product.
Marijuana: means all parts of the plant of the genus cannabis, whether growing or not, as well as the
seeds from the plant, the resin extracted from any part of the plant, and every compound, manufacture,
salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the plant or its seeds or resin; and includes cannabis as defined
in A.R.S. § 13-3401; but does not include industrial hemp, the fiber produced from the stalks of the plant
of the genus cannabis, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, sterilized seeds of the plant that are
incapable of germination, or the weight of any other ingredient combined with marijuana to prepare
topical or oral administrations, food, drink or other products.
Marijuana Concentrate means:
1. Resin extracted from any part of a plant of the genus cannabis and every compound,
manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of that resin or tetrahydrocannabinol.