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INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED. The practice of selling any tobacco or tobacco product wrapped individually for sale. Individually wrapped tobacco and tobacco products shall include but not be limited to single cigarette packs, single bags or cans of loose tobacco in any form, and single cans or other packaging of snuff or chewing tobacco. Cartons or other packaging containing more than a single pack or other container as described in this definition shall not be considered individually packaged. LOOSIES. The common term used to refer to a single or individually packaged cigarette. MINOR. Any natural person who has not yet reached the age of 18 years. MOVEABLE PLACE OF BUSINESS. Any form of business operated out of a truck, van, automobile or other type of vehicle or transportable shelter and not a fixed address store front or other permanent type of structure authorized for sales transactions. RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT. Any place of business where tobacco, tobacco products or tobacco related devices are available for sale to the general public. SALE. Any transfer of goods for money, trade, barter or other consideration. SELF SERVICE MERCHANDISING. Open displays of tobacco, tobacco products or tobacco related devices in any manner where any person shall have access to those items without the assistance or intervention of the licensee or the licensee's employees. The assistance or intervention shall entail the actual physical exchange of the tobacco, tobacco product or tobacco related device between the customer or the licensee or employee. The phrase shall not include vending machines. Self-service sales are interpreted as being any sale where there is not an actual physical exchange of tobacco between the clerk and the customer. TOBACCO or TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Any substance or item containing tobacco leaf, including but not limited to, cigarettes; cigars; pipe tobacco; snuff; fine cut or other chewing tobacco; cheroots; stogies; perique; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready-rubbed and other smoking tobacco; snuff flowers; cavendish; shorts; plug and twist tobaccos; dipping tobaccos; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco; and other kinds and forms of tobacco leaf prepared in a manner as to be suitable for chewing, sniffing or smoking. TOBACCO RELATED DEVICES. Any tobacco product as well as a pipe, rolling papers or other device intentionally designed or intended to be used in a manner which enables the chewing, sniffing or smoking of tobacco or tobacco products. VENDING MACHINE. Any mechanical, electric or electronic or other type of device which dispenses tobacco, tobacco products or tobacco related devices upon insertion of money, tokens or other form of payment directly into the device by the person seeking to purchase the tobacco, tobacco product or tobacco related devices. 602.03 LICENSE. (1)License required. No person shall sell or offer to sell any tobacco, tobacco products or tobacco related device without first having obtained a license to do so from the city.