[Adopted 4-21-1997 by Ord. No. 97-2465 (Ch. 246, Art. I, of the 1996
Township Code)]
The storage and display of cigarettes and any other tobacco
products by any retail outlet, including but not limited to supermarkets,
convenience stores, restaurants, taverns, and any other facility selling
cigarettes, in any fashion permitting bodily contact between patrons
or customers and the cigarettes and other tobacco products, be and
is hereby prohibited.
All such facilities are hereby directed to comply with this
article, within 10 days of its effective date, by removing any and
all cigarettes and tobacco from locations in their facilities in which
direct physical contact between patrons and customers and the cigarettes
and tobacco products is feasible.
It is the intent and purpose of the within article to require
the sale and distribution of tobacco products directly from the salesperson
to the customer and to prohibit the storage and display of cigarettes
and other tobacco products in a manner which permits direct acquisition
of the product without such salesperson's participation in the sale
or distribution.
Any person, partnership, corporation or other entity found to have violated this article shall be subject to the penalties provided in § 1-4 of this Code. Each day on which such unlawful display or storage of cigarettes and tobacco products occurs shall be deemed a separate offense.
