Legal Documents of Sweetwater

For the purpose of this chapter, the words and phrases used herein shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise clearly indicated by the context:

1. "Applicant." Owner of clinic who has submitted or is in the process of submitting an application.
2. "Methadone treatment clinic or facility" means a licensed facility for counseling of patients and the distribution of methadone for out-patient, non-residential purposes only. A methadone treatment clinic or facility is not a medical clinic or substance abuse treatment facility as per the Sweetwater Zoning Ordinance.
3. "Pain management clinic" means a privately owned facility in which a full-time medical doctor and/or osteopathic physician provides pain management services to patients, a majority of whom are issued a prescription for, or are dispensed, opioids, benzodiazepine, barbiturates, or carisoprodol, but not including suboxone, for more than ninety (90) days in a twelve (12) month period. A pain clinic does not include a hospital, medical or dental school, nursing school, physician assistant program, outpatient clinic or hospital or clinic operated by the federal government. (as added by Ord. #882, July 2012)