New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL › Chapter 30 - PERSONAL USE CANNABIS RULES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 17:30-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) All definitions
				contained in the Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace
				Modernization Act,
				P.L.
				2021, c. 16 (N.J.S.A.
				24:6I-31 et seq.), are incorporated herein by reference.
(b) The following words and terms, as used in
				this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
				indicates otherwise:
"Accreditation body" means an impartial, non-profit
				  organization that:
1. Is a signatory to
				the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) Mutual
				Recognition Arrangement for Testing and is recognized by ILAC;
2. Determines a laboratory's compliance with
				and conformance to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
				17025 standards and provides accreditation for compliant laboratories;
				and
3. Is not affiliated with any
				laboratory seeking accreditation.
"Act" means the Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance,
				  and Marketplace Modernization Act,
				  P.L.
				  2021, c. 16(N.J.S.A.
				  24:6I-31 et seq.).
"Adverse event" means any health-related event in a person,
				  which is associated with the use of a cannabis item, that is undesirable and is
				  unexpected or unusual.
"Advertisement" means any calculated attempt to directly or
				  indirectly induce sales of cannabis items, including, but not limited to, any
				  commercial written or verbal statement or communication of any other means. The
				  term shall not include:
1.
				Noncommercial speech;
2. A label on
				a cannabis item pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				17:30-16.3 and its accompanying supplemental
				information, pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				17:30-14.3(h) and
				(i);
3. Information provided by a cannabis
				business to another cannabis business listing its products for sale;
				and
4. "Adopt-a-Highway" signs
				erected under a current valid sponsorship with the New Jersey Department of
				Transportation.
"Aggregate ownership interest" means the total ownership
				  interest held by an owner that is a person and by the spouse, domestic partner,
				  civil union partner, child, sibling, or parent of the person.
"Alternative treatment center" or "ATC" means a medical
				  cannabis cultivator, a medical cannabis manufacturer, and/or a medical cannabis
				  dispensary that has been issued a permit to cultivate, manufacture, dispense,
				  or engage in other activities related to medical cannabis and related
				  paraphernalia pursuant to
				  P.L.
				  2019, c. 153 and
				  N.J.A.C. 17:30A.
"Batch" means a specific quantity of usable cannabis
				  propagated from the same seed or plant stock at the same time, cultivated in
				  the same cultivation area under similar conditions, and harvested together
				  during a specific time interval.
"Billboard" means a large outdoor sign, with a minimum size
				  of five feet in height by 11 feet in width, used for the display of a
				  commercial message.
"Board member" means, where a cannabis business or testing
				  laboratory license applicant or license holder is governed by a governing body,
				  such as a board of directors, a member of that governing body.
"Bona fide labor organization" has the same meaning as at
				  N.J.S.A. 24:6I-36.c.
"Business day" means any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday,
				  or a State-recognized holiday.
"Cannabidiol" or "CBD" means a non-psychoactive constituent
				  of cannabis, C21H30O2.
"Cannabis" means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L.
				  within the plant family Cannabaceae, whether growing or not, the seeds thereof,
				  and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of
				  the plant or its seeds, except those containing resin extracted from the plant;
				  which are cultivated and, where applicable, manufactured for use in cannabis
				  products, in accordance with the Act and this chapter.
"Cannabis business" means a cannabis cultivator, a cannabis
				  manufacturer, a cannabis retailer, cannabis wholesaler, cannabis distributor,
				  or cannabis delivery service. "Cannabis business" includes an "expanded
				  ATC."
"Cannabis business delivery personnel" means cannabis
				  business personnel possessing a Cannabis Business Identification Card who
				  deliver cannabis items or cannabis paraphernalia on behalf of a cannabis
				  business to a consumer.
"Cannabis Business Identification Card" means a document
				  issued by the Commission pursuant to
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-8.1(c)  that
				  identifies a person as an owner, principal, management services contractor,
				  employee, or volunteer acting on behalf of a cannabis business or testing
				  laboratory or other cannabis handler pursuant to N.J.S.A. 24:6I-44.a, required
				  to register with the Commission pursuant to
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-8.1(a).
"Cannabis concentrate" or "cannabis resin" means a product
				  manufactured by a cannabis manufacturer, either in solid form or in liquid form
				  as oil, including cannabis extracts and resin extracted using non-chemical
				  processes, that contains only the resin, cannabinoids, terpenes, and other
				  substances extracted from any part of the cannabis plant.
"Cannabis cultivator" means a business or organization owned
				  and controlled by a license holder that holds a Class 1 Cannabis Cultivator
				  license issued by the Commission.
"Cannabis consumption area" means, as further described at
				  N.J.S.A. 24:6I-21, a designated location operated by a permitted medical
				  cannabis dispensary or a licensed Class 5 Cannabis Retailer, for which a State
				  and local endorsement has been obtained, at which medical or personal-use
				  cannabis items may be consumed, that is either:
1. An indoor, structurally enclosed area of
				the medical cannabis dispensary, cannabis retailer that is separate from the
				area in which the dispensing of medical cannabis or retail sales of cannabis
				items occurs; or
2. An exterior
				structure on the same premises as the medical cannabis dispensary, cannabis
				retailer, either separate from or connected to the cannabis retailer.
"Cannabis delivery service" means a business or organization
				  owned and controlled by a license holder that holds a Class 6 Cannabis Delivery
				  license issued by the Commission.
"Cannabis distributor" means a business or organization owned
				  and controlled by a license holder that holds a Class 4 Cannabis Distributor
				  license issued by the Commission.
"Cannabis establishment" means a cannabis cultivator, a
				  cannabis manufacturer, a cannabis wholesaler, or a cannabis retailer.
"Cannabis extract" means a substance obtained by separating
				  resins from cannabis by:
1. A chemical
				extraction process using a hydrocarbon-based solvent, such as butane, hexane,
				or propane;
2. A chemical
				extraction process using the hydrocarbon-based solvent carbon dioxide, if the
				process uses high heat or pressure; or
3. Any other process identified by the
				Cannabis Regulatory Commission by rule.
"Cannabis flower" means the flower of the cannabis
				  plant.
"Cannabis item" means any usable cannabis or cannabis product
				  that is cultivated, produced, manufactured, or consumed in accordance with the
				  Act.
"Cannabis leaf" means the leaf of the cannabis plant.
"Cannabis manufacturer" means a business or organization
				  owned and controlled by a license holder that holds a Class 2 Cannabis
				  Manufacturer license issued by the Commission.
"Cannabis paraphernalia" means any equipment, products, or
				  materials of any kind that are used, intended for use, or designed for use in
				  planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, composting,
				  manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing,
				  testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, vaporizing, or containing
				  cannabis, or for ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing a cannabis item
				  into the human body.
"Cannabis plant" means the plant Cannabis sativa L. within
				  the plant family Cannabaceae in the seedling, vegetative, or flowering stages,
				  with readily observable roots and leaves with serrated edges; but does not
				  include a germinated seed, cutting, or clone without readily observable roots
				  and leaves with serrated edges.
"Cannabis product" means a cannabis concentrate or a
				  cannabis-infused product, that a cannabis manufacturer manufactures, produces,
				  or creates from usable cannabis or cannabis concentrate.
"Cannabis retailer" means a business or organization owned
				  and controlled by a license holder who holds a Class 5 Cannabis Retailer
				  license issued by the Commission.
"Cannabis wholesaler" means a business or organization owned
				  and controlled by a license holder who holds a Class 3 Cannabis Wholesaler
				  license issued by the Commission.
"Cannabis-infused product" means a product manufactured by a
				  cannabis manufacturer in an authorized form that contains usable cannabis or
				  cannabis concentrate, in solid or liquid form, and one or more ingredients
				  intended for human consumption or use, including an ingestible product,
				  inhalable product, or dermal product.
"Commission" means the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory
				  Commission established pursuant to section 31 at
				  P.L.
				  2019, c. 153(N.J.S.A.
				  24:6I-24).
"Common ownership or control" has the same meaning as at
				  N.J.S.A. 24:6I-3.
"Compassionate and Personal Use Acts" means the Jake Honig
				  Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act,
				  P.L.
				  2009, c. 307(N.J.S.A.
				  24:6I-1 et seq.), and the Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and
				  Marketplace Modernization Act,
				  P.L.
				  2021, c. 16(N.J.S.A.
				  24:6I-31 et seq.).
"Conditional license" means a temporary cannabis business
				  license that is issued pursuant to N.J.S.A. 24:6I-36.a.
"Consumer" means a person 21 years of age or older who
				  purchases, directly or through a cannabis delivery service, acquires, owns,
				  holds, or uses cannabis items for personal use by a person 21 years of age or
				  older. "Consumer" does not include a person who acquires, owns, holds, uses, or
				  has any other involvement in cannabis items for resale to others.
"Consumption" means the act of ingesting, inhaling, or
				  otherwise introducing cannabis items into the human body.
"Cultivate" means the propagation, germination, planting,
				  growing, harvesting, drying, curing, and processing of cannabis.
"Curbside retail sale" means when a cannabis retailer sells a
				  cannabis item to a consumer who is on the exterior of the facility on the
				  cannabis retailer premises, which includes any parking lot and adjacent
				  sidewalk that are located at the physical address listed on the cannabis
				  business license, pursuant to
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-14.4.
"Delivery vehicle" means the vehicle used for the transport
				  of cannabis items or related supplies between cannabis businesses or for the
				  delivery of cannabis items to consumers.
"Dermal products" means oil, topical formulation, or products
				  in a transdermal form intended for dermal application.
"Diversely owned business" means a license applicant or
				  license holder where the entity has been certified, pursuant to the criteria at
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-6.4, as:
1. A minority-owned business pursuant to
				N.J.S.A. 52:27H-21.18 et seq.;
2. A
				women-owned business pursuant to N.J.S.A. 52:27H-21.18 et seq.;
3. A disabled-veterans-owned business, as
				defined at N.J.S.A. 52:32-31.2; or
4. Any combination of paragraphs 1, 2, or 3
				above.
"Economically disadvantaged area" means a zip code that meets
				  all of the following socioeconomic criteria:
1. Has a median income that is 80 percent or
				less of the average median household income in the State, as determined
				annually by the U.S. Census Bureau; and
2. Has a health uninsured rate that is at
				least 150 percent of the health uninsured rate in the State, as determined
				annually by the U.S. Census Bureau.
"Electronic smoking device" means a pre-filled,
				  tamper-resistant, non-refillable, disposable "all-in-one" e-cigarette or
				  pre-filled, tamper-resistant, non-refillable cartridge and separate battery
				  used to heat and aerosolize or vaporize a cannabis product for
				  inhalation.
"Employee" means a person who is not an owner, principal, or
				  vendor-contractor that works for a cannabis business or testing laboratory and
				  who receives remuneration or other tangible benefit from the cannabis business
				  or testing laboratory for services performed for the benefit of the cannabis
				  business or testing laboratory regarding the possession, cultivation,
				  manufacture, transport, delivery, selling, or testing of, or other conduct
				  associated with, cannabis pursuant to the Act and this chapter.
1. "Employee" includes managerial and
				non-managerial employees, as well as paid or unpaid interns.
"Entity" means an organization formed by one or more persons
				  to conduct business, engage in a trade, or partake in similar
				  activities.
"Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the
				  Cannabis Regulatory Commission.
"Expanded alternative treatment center" or "expanded ATC"
				  means a permitted ATC pursuant to
				  P.L.
				  2019, c. 153 and
				  N.J.A.C. 17:30A that is authorized to operate a cannabis business or businesses
				  pursuant to the Act and this chapter, in addition to its medicinal cannabis
				  operations.
"Financial consideration" means any thing of value that is
				  given or received either directly or indirectly through sales, barter, trade,
				  fees, charges, dues, contributions, or donations.
"Financial source" means a person or entity that lends any
				  amount of capital to a cannabis business license applicant or license holder
				  pursuant to a secured or unsecured financing agreement and who is not an owner,
				  passive investor, or principal of such cannabis business license applicant or
				  license holder.
"Financial source agreement" means any agreement, contract,
				  arrangement, or other type of formal understanding between a financial source
				  and a cannabis business license applicant or license holder where the financial
				  source lends capital to the cannabis business license applicant or license
				  holder pursuant to a secured or unsecured financing agreement and does not
				  receive ownership interest, in accordance with
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-6.10.
"Finished cannabis product" means a cannabis product,
				  packaged in its finished state, including any accompanying device and ready for
				  sale to a consumer.
"Finished usable cannabis" means usable cannabis, packaged in
				  its finished state including any accompanying wrapping, such as a pre-roll, and
				  ready for sale to a consumer.
"Immature cannabis plant" means a cannabis plant that is not
				  flowering.
"Immediate family" means the spouse, domestic partner, civil
				  union partner, child, sibling, or parent of a person, whether biological or
				  adopted, and shall include the siblings, parents, and children of the person's
				  spouse, domestic partner, or civil union partner, and the parents, spouses,
				  domestic partners, or civil union partners of the person's parents, siblings,
				  and children.
"Impact zone" has the same meaning as defined at N.J.S.A.
				  24:6I-33.
"Impact zone business" means a license applicant or license
				  holder that meets the criteria at
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-6.5 and N.J.S.A. 24:6I-36.e.
"Ingestible products" means cannabis product forms intended
				  for oral administration and ingestion, including oil and sublabial, sublingual,
				  buccal, and enteral forms.
"Inhalable products" means usable cannabis, solid cannabis
				  concentrate, and vaporized formulation intended for inhalation.
"License" means an authorization or approval issued by the
				  Commission pursuant to this chapter and the Act that authorizes a license
				  holder to possess, transport, cultivate, manufacture, sell, test, deliver, or
				  engage in other conduct in accordance with the Act and this chapter.
"License applicant" means a person or entity that is applying
				  for, or has a pending application for, a conditional or annual cannabis
				  business license or a testing laboratory license.
"License holder" or "licensee" means a person or entity
				  registered to do business in New Jersey that holds a conditional or annual
				  cannabis business license or a testing laboratory license.
"License holder representative" or "licensee representative"
				  means an owner, principal, employee, agent, or representative of a cannabis
				  business or testing facility license applicant or license holder, to the extent
				  that the person acts in a representative capacity.
"Lot" means a specific quantity of cannabis product
				  manufactured from the same usable cannabis during a specific time interval
				  under similar conditions, using the same methods, equipment, and
				  ingredients.
"Management services agreement" means any agreement,
				  contract, arrangement, or other type of formal understanding between a
				  management services contractor and a cannabis business license applicant or
				  license holder where the management services contractor provides professional
				  staffing, administrative, operational, advisory, or management services to a
				  cannabis business license applicant or license holder in exchange for
				  remuneration, but not an ownership interest, in accordance with
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-6.9.
"Management services contractor" means a third-party
				  vendor-contractor person or entity supervised by the principals and owners of
				  the cannabis business license applicant or license holder, that provides
				  professional staffing, administrative, operational, advisory, or management
				  services to a cannabis business license applicant or license holder in exchange
				  for remuneration pursuant to a management services agreement, pursuant to
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-6.9.
"Manager" means a person who is an employee or volunteer that
				  participates in control or decision-making authority over the direction,
				  management, operations, or policies of a cannabis business or testing
				  laboratory that is supervised by the principals and owners of the cannabis
				  business or testing laboratory license applicant or license holder.
"Manufacture" means preparing, compounding, mixing, or
				  converting usable cannabis to produce, make, or otherwise create a cannabis
				  product.
"Manufacturing record" means documentation of each unique
				  manufacturing event used to manufacture a cannabis product.
"Manufacturing supervisor" means a qualified individual who,
				  by possession of a relevant and recognized degree, certificate, or professional
				  standing, or by extensive knowledge, training, and experience, will be
				  responsible for ensuring compliance with manufacturing requirements.
"Master formulation record" means the unique formulation
				  record of individually manufactured cannabis products.
"Mature cannabis plant" means a harvestable female cannabis
				  plant that is flowering.
"Medical cannabis" means cannabis in various forms dispensed
				  to registered qualifying patients and designated caregivers pursuant to the
				  Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act,
				  P.L.
				  2019, c. 153.
"Microbusiness" has the same meaning as defined at N.J.S.A.
				  24:6I-33 and operated in accordance with
				  N.J.A.C.
				  17:30-6.7.
"Military veteran" means a person who served in any branch of
				  the active or reserve component of the United State military and/or the
				  National Guard of any state military service and who was discharged or released
				  under conditions other than dishonorable.
"Minor" means a person who is under 18 years of age and who
				  has not been married or previously declared by a court or an administrative
				  agency to be emancipated.
"Noncommercial" means not dependent or conditioned upon the
				  provision or receipt of financial consideration.
"Nonprofit entity" means a corporation, association, or
				  organization that is:
1. Not conducted
				for pecuniary profit of any private shareholder or individual;
2. Established, organized, or chartered
				without capital stock pursuant to:
i. The
				provisions at Titles 15, 15A, 16, or 17 of the New Jersey Revised
				Statutes;
ii. A special charter;
				or
iii. Any similar general or
				special law of this or any other state;
3. Certified as exempt from the tax imposed
				by the Corporation Business Tax Act, as set forth at N.J.S.A. 54:10A-3.e;
				and
4. Certified as an entity that
				is not required to be a tax-exempt organization pursuant to
				26 U.S.C. §
											501(c)(3).
"Officer" means a person who is an officer of a cannabis
				  business or testing laboratory license applicant or license holder pursuant to
				  the entity's formation documents or bylaws, or who participates in managing the
				  cannabis business or testing laboratory license applicant, license holder, and
				  license applicant's or license holder's cannabis business or testing
				  laboratory. "Officer" includes, but is not limited to:
1. President, vice-president, secretary,
				treasurer, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief operating
				officer, or general counsel;
2. If
				the license applicant or license holder is a corporation, the officers of the
				corporation, in accordance with the articles of incorporation or the
				bylaws;
3. If the license applicant
				or license holder is a nonprofit entity, the chief executive officer, members
				of the governing board, and the officers, in accordance with the articles of
				incorporation or the bylaws;
4. If
				the license applicant or license holder is a partnership, the general partners,
				managing partners, and controlling partners of the partnership;
5. If the license applicant or license holder
				is a limited liability company, the manager-members of the limited liability
				company;
6. If the license
				applicant or license holder is a private capital fund, the members of the
				executive team of the private capital fund, and any other persons that control
				its investment or management; or
7.
				If the license applicant or license holder is a business organization other
				than the types listed at paragraphs 1 through 6 above, any person whose
				position with respect to the business organization, as determined under its
				formation documents or bylaws, without regard to the person's title, are the
				functional equivalents of any of the positions described in this
				definition.
"Oil" means a cannabis concentrate, in viscous liquid form
				  containing only cannabinoids, such as THC and cannabidiol, terpenes, and other
				  substances that are extracted from the cannabis plant.
"Onsite assessment" means an inspection of any site conducted
				  by an employee of the Commission to ensure compliance with the Act.
"Oral lozenge" means a solid oral cannabis-infused product
				  that is designed to dissolve or disintegrate slowly in the mouth.
"Organic" means satisfying or meeting the organic program
				  standards as defined at N.J.A.C. 2:78.
"Owner" means:
1.
				Any person or entity that holds at least a five percent aggregate ownership
				interest in a cannabis business or testing laboratory license applicant or
				license holder;
2. Where an entity,
				including a parent company, holds at least a five percent ownership interest in
				a cannabis business or testing laboratory license applicant or license holder,
				any person or entity that holds at least 10 percent aggregate ownership
				interest in or is a member of the executive team of such entity except that,
				where such entity holding at least a five percent ownership interest in a
				cannabis business or the testing laboratory license applicant or license
				holder:
i. Is a nonprofit entity, any person
				or entity that is an officer in accordance with the articles of incorporation,
				or the bylaws or is a member of the governing board of such entity;
ii. Is a qualified institutional investor,
				any person or entity that holds at least 30 percent aggregate ownership
				interest in or is a member of the executive team of such entity; or
iii. Is a trust, any trustee of such entity;
				or
3. A significantly
				involved person of a cannabis business license applicant or license
				holder.
"Ownership interest" means a right to ownership or equity
				  interest in an entity.
"Parties of interest" means any person or entity holding an
				  interest, whether financial or otherwise, in a cannabis business license
				  applicant or license holder.
"Passive investor" means a person or entity that:
1. Holds an aggregate ownership interest that
				is greater than zero percent but less than five percent in a cannabis business
				or testing laboratory license applicant or license holder; and
2. Does not have control or decision-making
				authority over the management, operations, or policies of such license
				applicant's or license holder's cannabis business or testing
				laboratory.
"Person" means a natural person.
"Personal use" or "personal use of cannabis" means:
1. The purchase, acquisition, holding,
				possession, or use of cannabis or cannabis items by a person 21 years of age or
				older; and
2. Does not include
				resale to other persons or entities.
"Physical plant" means the spaces, equipment, and
				  infrastructure directly utilized by a cannabis business, within the premises,
				  for cultivation, manufacturing, wholesaling, distributing, retail sale, or
				  delivery.
"Premises" includes the following areas of a location
				  controlled or operated by a cannabis business or testing laboratory:
1. All public and private enclosed areas at
				the location that are used in the business operated at the location, including,
				but not limited to, offices, kitchens, rest rooms, and storerooms;
2. Any areas outside a building that is used,
				or is to be used, for the cultivation, manufacturing, wholesaling,
				distributing, retail sale, or delivery of cannabis items;
3. For a location that is used, or is to be
				used, for the cultivation of cannabis outside a building, the entire lot or
				parcel that the license holder owns, leases, or has a right to occupy;
				and
4. A purely administrative
				office operated by a cannabis distributor or cannabis delivery service that is
				not used for the possession or handling of cannabis or cannabis items shall not
				be considered to be a cannabis business premises.
"Pressurized metered dose inhaler" means a device with
				  pressurized propellant that administers a dose of aerosolized oil for
				  inhalation.
"Principal" means a person or entity, including an officer or
				  a board member, that participates in control or decision-making authority over
				  the direction, management, operations, or policies of a cannabis business or
				  testing laboratory license applicant, license holder, or license applicant's or
				  license holder's cannabis business or testing laboratory.
1. A principal of a cannabis business or
				testing laboratory license applicant or license holder does not include a
				manager or a management services contractor.
2. Where a principal of a license applicant
				or license holder is an entity, any person or entity that holds at least 10
				percent aggregate ownership interest in, or is a member of the executive team
				of, such entity is also a principal of such license applicant or license
				holder.
"Private capital fund" means:
1. A United States investment company that
				includes, but is not limited to, a venture capital fund, a hedge fund, or a
				private equity fund;
2. That is
				advised or managed by an investment adviser registered under
				15 U.S.C. §§
											80b-1 et seq.; and
3. Does not include a qualified institutional
				investor.
"Project labor agreement" means a form of pre-hire collective
				  bargaining agreement covering terms and conditions of a specific project,
				  including labor issues and worker grievances associated with that
				  project.
"Proof of New Jersey residency" means one or more of the
				  following current, unexpired documents:
1. A New Jersey driver's license that is in
				effect and is a valid State-issued identification card;
2. A Federal, State, or local
				government-issued identification card that shows the applicant's name and New
				Jersey address;
3. A utility bill
				issued within the 90 days preceding the application date that shows the
				applicant's name and New Jersey address;
4. Correspondence from the Internal Revenue
				Service or the New Jersey Division of Taxation issued within the year preceding
				the application date that shows the applicant's name and New Jersey
				address;
5. A non-driver
				identification card issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission that is
				in effect and good standing;
6.
				Federal, State, or local government correspondence issued to the applicant
				within the 90 days preceding the application date that shows the applicant's
				name and New Jersey address;
7.
				Bank statements or credit card bills issued within each of the three months
				preceding the application date that show the applicant's name and New Jersey
				address;
8. Residential lease or
				rental agreements with the name of applicant as lessee or renter;
9. A deed or title to real residential
				property that is owner-occupied; or
10. Pay stubs from the prior three months
				that show the applicant's name and New Jersey address.
"Public place" means a place as defined at
				  N.J.S.A.
				  24:6I-33.
"Qualified institutional investor" means a United States
				  purchaser of securities that has special status under financial regulation
				  laws, specifically:
1. A bank as
				defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
				amended;
2. A bank holding company
				as defined in the Federal Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as
				amended;
3. An insurance company as
				defined in Section 2(a)(17) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
				amended;
4. An investment company
				registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
				amended;
5. An employee benefit
				plan or pension fund subject to the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security
				Act of 1974, excluding an employee benefit plan or pension fund sponsored by a
				license applicant or license holder or any of its owners;
6. A state or Federal government pension
				plan; or
7. A group comprised
				entirely of entities specified at paragraphs 1 through 6 above.
"Quality control" means a planned and systematic operation or
				  procedure for ensuring the strength, quality, and purity of a cannabis
				  product.
"Radio" means a system for transmitting sound without visual
				  images, and includes broadcast, cable, on-demand, satellite, or Internet
				  programming; and includes any audio programming downloaded or streamed through
				  the Internet.
"Residual solvent" means a volatile organic chemical used in
				  some methods of manufacturing cannabis concentrates that is not completely
				  removed by a cannabis business's quality control standard operating
				  procedures.
"Security alarm system" means any device or series of
				  devices, including, but not limited to, a signal system interconnected with a
				  radio frequency method, such as cellular, private radio signals or other
				  mechanical or electronic device, used to detect an unauthorized
				  intrusion.
"Serving" or "dose" means the measured quantity of a usable
				  cannabis or cannabis product to be taken at one time.
"Signature" or "electronic signature" means either the name
				  of one written by oneself or an electronic code, sound, symbol, or process
				  attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a
				  person with the intent to sign the record.
"Significantly involved person" has the same meaning as at
				  N.J.S.A. 24:6I-33.
"Social equity business" means a license applicant or license
				  holder that meets the requirements at N.J.A.C. 17:306.6.
"Television" means a system for transmitting visual images
				  and sound that are reproduced on screens, and includes broadcast, cable,
				  on-demand, satellite, or Internet programming. "Television" includes any video
				  programming downloaded or streamed through the Internet.
"Testing laboratory" means an independent, third-party
				  laboratory that is:
1. A "cannabis
				testing facility" that is licensed by the Commission pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				17:30-18 to perform testing services,
				including analysis and certification of compliance with applicable health,
				safety, and potency standards, on usable cannabis for personal use and cannabis
				products pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				17:30-19; or
2. A "medical cannabis testing laboratory"
				that is licensed by the Commission pursuant to
				N.J.S.A.
				24:6I-1 to perform testing services,
				including analysis and certification of compliance with applicable health,
				safety, and potency standards, on usable cannabis for medical use and medical
				cannabis products pursuant to
				N.J.S.A.
				24:6I-17.
"THC" means delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and its precursor,
				  tetrahydrocannabinolic acid, the main psychoactive chemicals contained in the
				  cannabis plant.
"Topical formulation" means a transcutaneous therapeutic
				  cannabis-infused product in liquid form intended to be applied to the skin or
				  hair, including an ointment, gel, cream, or lotion, comprised of oil, water,
				  short carbon chains, alcohol, dimethylsulfoxide, polyethylene glycol,
				  polypropylene glycol, glycerin, mineral, or mixtures thereof.
"Unusable cannabis" means cannabis seeds, stems, stalks,
				  roots, or any part of the immature cannabis plant.
"Usable cannabis" means the dried leaves and flowers of the
				  mature cannabis plant; but does not include the cannabis seeds, seedlings,
				  stems, stalks, roots, or any part of the immature cannabis plant.
"Vaporized formulation" means oil or oil and one or more
				  inactive ingredients in an electronic smoking device that is meant to be
				  heated, aerosolized, and inhaled.
"Vendor-contractor" means a third-party person or entity that
				  is separate from the cannabis business license applicant or license holder that
				  provides goods, services, or intellectual property to a cannabis business
				  license applicant or license holder in exchange for remuneration, but not
				  ownership interest, pursuant to a contract or agreement. A vendor-contractor
				  may include, but is not limited to:
1.
				A landlord that is leasing the land and/or building of a cannabis business
				premises or administrative office to a license applicant or license
				holder;
2. A contract counterparty
				that is leasing equipment used in the cultivation, manufacturing, retail sale,
				storage, transportation, or destruction of cannabis to a cannabis business
				license applicant or license holder;
3. A vendor providing materials;
4. An architect;
5. A construction; heating, ventilating, air
				conditioning, and refrigeration; plumbing; or lighting company;
6. A security company;
7. A lawyer or lobbyist;
8. An accountant; or
9. A consultant providing services, including
				license application preparation, and operation recommendations regarding
				cultivation, manufacturing, retail sale, storage, transportation, or
				destruction of cannabis.
"Visitor" means a person on the cannabis business or testing
				  laboratory premises who does not possess a Cannabis Business Identification
				  Card.
"Volunteer" means a person who is not an owner, principal, or
				  vendor-contractor that works for a cannabis business who does not receive
				  remuneration from the cannabis business for services performed for the benefit
				  of the cannabis business regarding the possession, cultivation, manufacture,
				  transport, delivery, selling of, or other conduct associated with cannabis
				  pursuant to the Act and this chapter.
"Written report" means the report prepared by the testing
				  laboratory about the analytical testing it performed and the results it
				  obtained.