[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township of Cranford as indicated
in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted by the Board of Health 10-17-1995 by Ord. No. 95-1 (Ch. 255, Art. I, of
the 1992 Code)]
[Amended 10-24-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-13; 10-25-2022 by Ord. No.
2022-23[1]]
A.Â
Any person
who directly or indirectly, acting as agent or otherwise, sells, gives
or furnishes to a minor under the age of 21 years any cigarettes made
of tobacco or of any other matter or substance which can be smoked
or any cigarette paper or tobacco in any form, including smokeless
tobacco, shall be punished by a fine of $250.
B.Â
Smoking
on municipal property (including but not limited to municipal buildings,
parks, parking lots, and recreational areas) shall be prohibited.
Any person smoking on municipal property shall be punished by a fine
of $250.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also changed the title of this
article from "Sale to Minors" to "Sale and Consumption of Tobacco
and Cannabis Products."
It shall be the duty of the Health Department in cooperation
with the Police Department to enforce the provisions of this article.
This article shall become effective January 1, 1996.
[Adopted by the Township Committee 6-24-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-12 (Ch. 256, Art. I,
of the 1992 Code)]
The funds collected by licensing of such establishments shall
be used to fund the Township of Cranford's Tobacco Age of Sale Enforcement
Program and other smoking cessation, prevention or control programs.
[Amended 10-25-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-23]
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases,
words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein
unless their use in the text of this article clearly demonstrates
a different meaning. When not inconsistent with the context, words
used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural
number shall include the singular number, and words used in the singular
number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory
and not merely directory.
The Cranford Board of Health.
All parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L. within the plant
family Cannabaceae, whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, and
every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture. or preparation
of the plant or its seeds, except those containing resin extracted
from the plant; which are cultivated and, where applicable, manufactured
for use in cannabis products, in accordance with the Cannabis Regulatory,
Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act. P.L. 2021.
c.16 (N.J.S.A. 24:61-31 et seq.).
An electronic or other powered device that can be used to
deliver nicotine or other substances to the person inhaling from the
device, including but not limited to an electronic cigarette, cigar,
cigarillo, or pipe.
Any establishment that sells or offers for sale electronic
smoking device products designed for consumption through inhalation.
Every delivery of electronic smoking devices, whether the
same is by direct sale or the solicitation or acceptance of an order,
including the exchange, barter, traffic in, keeping and exposing for
sale, displaying for sale, delivering for value, peddling and possessing
with intent to sell.
The burning or aerosolizing of, inhaling from, exhaling the
smoke from, or the possession of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe
or other product which contains tobacco, cannabis. and any other matter
that can be burned or aerosolized so as to be inhaled and exhaled
as smoke or vapor.
A.Â
No person shall conduct, maintain or operate an establishment that
sells electronic smoking devices without first obtaining from this
Board a license to do so.
B.Â
Fees in accordance with the following schedule shall be paid before
any license required in this article shall be issued:
(1)Â
Electronic smoking device establishment license: $200.
C.Â
Licenses issued under the provisions of this article, unless forfeited
or revoked by this Board, shall expire annually on the 31st day of
December of each year.
D.Â
No license is transferable by sale or otherwise.
E.Â
Such license shall be posted in a conspicuous place in such establishment
or, if an itinerant establishment, shall be readily available for
display.
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions
of this article shall be subject to the following penalties. For any
and every violation of any of the provisions of this article, the
violator of said provision will be subject to a fine of not less than
$100 and not more than $2,000. No fines shall be issued for 60 days
after publication of this article.
