§ 30A-4. Definitions.

(a)

"Commissioner" means the Sonoma County Agricultural Commissioner.

(b)

"Genetically engineered" means produced from an organism or organisms in which the genetic material has been changed through the application of:

(1)

Invitro nucleic acid techniques which include, but are not limited to, recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA), direct injection of nucleic acid into cells or organelles, encapsulation, gene deletion, and doubling; or

(2)

Methods of fusing cells beyond the taxonomic family that overcome natural physiological, reproductive, or recombination barriers, and that are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection such as conjugation, transduction, and hybridization.

(c)

"Organism" means any biological entity capable of replication, reproduction or transferring of genetic material, exclusive of human beings and human fetuses.

(d)

"Genetically engineered organism" means an organism, or the offspring of an organism, the DNA of which has been altered or amended through genetic engineering. Such organisms are also sometimes referred to as "genetically modified organisms" or "GMOs." For the purposes of this definition, an animal, which has not itself been genetically engineered, regardless of whether such animal has been fed or injected with any food or drug that has been produced through means of genetic engineering, shall not be considered genetically engineered.

(Ord. No. 6196 R , § 4, 11-8-2016)