2473-16 Increasing Smoking Age to 21.pdf

tobacco, snuff and cigarettes in any form. Tobacco products shall also include electronic cigarettes, e-vapor products, and dissolvable tobacco. Tobacco retailer shall mean any person that operates a store, stand, booth, concession or place at which sales of tobacco are made including a person that owns, operates or uses a vending machine and/or a vending machine location. Township shall mean the Township of West Orange. Vending machine shall mean any automated self-service device which, upon insertion of money, tokens or other form of payment, dispenses a tobacco product. Vending machine location shall mean the room, enclosure, space or area where a tobacco product vending machine is installed and/or operated. III. CHAPTER 12, SECTION 8.3 SHALL BE AND HEREBY IS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED TO INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING: 12-8.3 Prohibition of Underaged Persons Using Tobacco Products in a Public Place. It shall be unlawful for any underaged person to use tobacco in and/or on any public place or to possess in open view, an opened pack, opened carton or other opened container holding a tobacco product in any public place unless in the presence of a parent or guardian. A broken seal on any package or other container shall be evidence of an open container. IV. CHAPTER 12, SECTION 8.4 SHALL BE AND HEREBY IS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED TO INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING: 12-8.4 Unlawful Purchase of Tobacco Products. It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase a tobacco product; (a) with funds by an underaged person; or (b) with the intent to sell such a product to an underaged person. V. CHAPTER 12, SECTION 8.5 SHALL BE AND HEREBY IS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED TO INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING: 12-8.5 Identification Required. Any person selling or permitting to be sold a tobacco product to an individual shall first request and examine identification from the purchaser positively establishing that the individual's age is twenty-one (21) years or greater, unless the seller has some other reasonable grounds for determining the age of a minor. VI. CHAPTER 12, SECTION 8.6 SHALL BE AND HEREBY IS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED TO INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING: 12-8.6 Prohibition of Underaged Persons Using Tobacco Products in a Public Place. It shall be unlawful for any underaged person to use

EBY IS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED TO INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING: 12-8.6 Prohibition of Underaged Persons Using Tobacco Products in a Public Place. It shall be unlawful for any underaged person to use tobacco in and/or on any public place or to possess in open view, an opened pack, opened carton or other opened container holding a tobacco product in any public place unless in the presence of a parent or guardian. A broken seal on any package or other container shall be evidence of an open container.