§ 111.605. License required.

A.

It shall be unlawful for any person as principal, clerk, agent, or servant or any partnership, corporation, or other entity to sell any items, effect, paraphernalia, accessory, or thing which is designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs, as defined by the Ohio Revised Code, without obtaining a license therefor from the Mayor. Such license shall be in addition to any or all other licenses held by applicant.

B.

No license shall be granted to a retail establishment disseminating, distributing, or offering for sale items described in subsection A of this section that will conduct its business at a location that is within five hundred feet from the boundaries of a parcel of real estate having situated on it a school, day care center, public library, or public playground. However, any duly issued license under this section in force as of the effective date of this section will be continued from year to year upon payment to the License Clerk of the annual license fee and compliance with the other sections of this article. However, any change in ownership of said retail establishment or change in location will remove same from this exception. "Change in ownership" in the case of a partnership or corporation for the purpose of this subsection means more than a fifty percent change in partners or shareholders from the partners or shareholders owning the partnership or corporation as of the effective date of this section. Penalty, see § 111.999.

(Ord. 316-1986; Ord. 700-1982)