Cigarette – Any roll for smoking, made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape and irrespective of whether the tobacco is flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingredient, where such roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper or any other material, except where such wrapper is wholly or in the greater part made of tobacco and 1,000 such rolls weigh over three pounds.

Employee – A person who engages to furnish work or services to an employer for remuneration, financial or otherwise. The term includes an independent contractor retained by the employer.

Employer – Any entity or individual who engages a person to perform work or services for which compensation is given in periodic payments or otherwise, even though the relationship of the person so engaged to the employer may be an independent contractor for other purposes.

Self-Service Display – The display of tobacco or tobacco products at a business establishment that allows public access to the tobacco or tobacco products without the assistance of an employee of the business establishment.

Strict Liability, Without Regard to Fault – A form of liability imposed without regard to a person’s mental state and under which the existence or absence of fault is not material to the determination of a person’s legal responsibility.

Tobacco Products – Cigarettes, cigars, cheroots, stogies, periques, granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed and other smoking tobacco, snuff, snuff flour, cavendish, plug and twist tobacco, fine-cut and 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 otherwise, or both for chewing and smoking.

Vendor-Assisted Tobacco Sale – The sale of tobacco or tobacco products to a retail buyer wherein only the vendor has access to the tobacco or tobacco products offered for sale, and the delivery of the tobacco or tobacco products from the vendor to the buyer occurs only after completion of the sale thereof. [BC 5.08.513, added by Ordinance No. 3983, 6/9/97; amended by Ordinance No. 4215, 6/24/02]