As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
Any police officer, county health inspector or other employee
of the County of Ulster authorized to enforce this article.
HERBAL CIGARETTE
Any cigarette-like product not containing tobacco, but designed
to simulate traditional cigarette smoking through the burning of various
herbs.
SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA
Any pipe, water pipe, hookah, rolling papers, electronic
aerosol delivery system or any other device, equipment or apparatus
designed for the consumption or inhalation of tobacco products.
TOBACCO PRODUCT
Any product made or derived from tobacco, or which contains
nicotine marketed or sold for human consumption, whether consumption
occurs through inhalation, or oral or dermal absorption. Tobacco products
include, but are not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco,
snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, bidis, snus, dissolvable
tobacco products and electronic cigarette cartridges. If the names
of any product, either made or derived from tobacco, changes or deviates
from those listed above, they shall continue to be included in this
definition and are subject to the restrictions of this article.
The Ulster County Department of Health shall create appropriate
training materials and programs that shall be made available to any
existing tobacco retailer.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or
part of this article or the application thereof to any person, individual,
corporation, firm, partnership, entity, or circumstance shall be adjudged
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional,
such order of judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the
remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or part of this article,
or its application to the person, individual, corporation, firm, partnership,
entity, or circumstance directly involved in the controversy in which
such order of judgment shall be rendered.
This article shall take effect January 1, 2019.