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759.01 DEFINITIONS. (a) "Food" means fruits, vegetables, meats, poultry, eggs, dairy products and other natural and processed products offered for sale for human or animal consumption. (b) "Irradiated Food" means any food treated with ionizing radiation from radioactive sources, x-rays, or electron beams and includes any food which contains an ingredient that has been irradiated; provided, however, that if the irradiated ingredients of any food consist solely of spices which have been so treated, such food shall not be deemed an irradiated food on account of such irradiated spices. 759.02 SALE OF IRRADIATED FOOD PROHIBITED: EXCEPTION. It shall be unlawful for any merchant, broker or processor to knowingly sell, offer for sale or expose for sale an irradiated food except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, whether or not such food is deemed to be adulterated under provisions of the Codified Ordinances of the City of North Olmsted. It shall not be unlawful under this subdivision for anp merchant, broker or processor to knowingly sell, offer for sale or expose for sale an irradiated food to a hospital, medical clinic, physi- cian or physicians office for use as part of a medical regimen in the care or treatment of persons with immune system defi- ciency or other disease, provided the irradiated food is pack- aged with or accompanied by a warning label that it is intended for medical use only bp such persons upon physicians advice. 759.03 APPLICABILITY. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to irradiated foods purchased prior to the effective date of this Section. 759.04 EFFECTIVENESS. This act shall take effect and be in force on the 120th day after it shall have taken effect under the Amended Charter of the City of North Olmsted. 759.05 PENALTIES. Whoever violates any provision of this Chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. If the offender has been previously convicted of a violation of this Chapter, such