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File #: 62422    Version: 1 Name: Definition of cannabis
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/30/2020 In control: Attorney's Office
On agenda: 11/17/2020 Final action: 11/17/2020
Enactment date: 12/4/2020 Enactment #: ORD-20-00111
Title: Amending Subsection (1) of Section 23.05 of the Madison General Ordinances to create a definition of cannabis and cannabis derivative and includes these terms in the definition of smoke-free and smoking.
Sponsors: Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, Michael E. Verveer, Max Prestigiacomo, Zachary Henak, Marsha A. Rummel, Michael J. Tierney, Grant Foster, Patrick W. Heck, Rebecca Kemble, Sheri Carter, Keith Furman, Tag Evers, Shiva Bidar, Lindsay Lemmer, Arvina Martin, Syed Abbas, Barbara Harrington-McKinney
Fiscal Note
No fiscal impact.
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Amending Subsection (1) of Section 23.05 of the Madison General Ordinances to create a definition of cannabis and cannabis derivative and includes these terms in the definition of smoke-free and smoking.
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This ordinance creates a definition of cannabis and cannabis derivative. The ordinance adds the terms cannabis and cannabis derivative to the definition of smoke-free and smoking, thereby prohibiting the smoking of cannabis in any place where smoking of other products and devices are prohibited.

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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:

Subsection (1) entitled “Definitions” of Section 23.05 entitled “Smoking Prohibited in Certain Areas” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended by amending and creating the following:

““Cannabis” means all parts of the plants in the genus cannabis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant or its seeds. It does not include marijuana derivatives or any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks, fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant that is incapable of germination. It does not include hemp or synthetic chemical cannabinoids.

“Cannabis derivative” means any substance derived from plants in the genus cannabis that has a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of more than 0.3 percent per volume or weight. It does not include hemp or synthetic chemical cannabinoids.

"Smoke-free" means absence from the ambient air of the smoke by-product from the burning, inhaling, exhaling, or carrying of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, weed, plant, cannabis or cannabis derivative, or other combustible substance in any manner in any form.

"Smoking" means to smoke or carry a lighted pipe, cigar,...

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