As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON, FIRM, CORPORATION or ASSOCIATION
Includes the following: any person, firm, corporation or
association in whose place of business or employment tobacco products
are offered for sale, directly or by machine.
TOBACCO PRODUCT
Any product made from the tobacco plant or containing tobacco
leaf, for the purpose of smoking, chewing, inhaling, or other personal
use, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco,
chewing tobacco, snuff, and dipping tobacco.
TOBACCO VENDING MACHINE
Any mechanical, electrical or electronic self-service device
which, upon insertion of money, tokens or any other form of payments,
dispenses tobacco or tobacco products, either exclusively or as one
kind of available item.
In view of the indiscriminate sales of tobacco
products to minors by automatic vending machines, all tobacco vending
machines are hereby prohibited in the Township of Greenwich in any
location that has access by minors.
[Added 6-1-1998 by Ord. No. 11-1998]
All tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco
products and related paraphernalia, shall not be publicly displayed
in retail stores within the Township of Greenwich. All such products
shall be hidden from public view.
The municipal Police Department or any citizen
may enforce this chapter by filing a complaint in Municipal Court,
provided that no citizen may file a complaint prior to 120 days after
the date this chapter takes effect.