[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township
of Montague 7-1-96 as Ord. No. BH:96-01. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Township of Montague, Board of Health hereby enacts Chapter 84 of the Montague Board of Health Ordinance entitled Tobacco Sales Prohibition, prohibiting the sale of tobacco by way of vending machines selling tobacco products, as a new Chapter in the Code of the Township of Montague, Board of Health.
In view of the indiscriminate sales of cigarettes and other
tobacco products to minors by automatic vending machines, all cigarette
and tobacco vending machines are hereby prohibited in the Township
of Montague.
Any person owning, operating, renting or permitting the use
of a cigarette vending machine on premises under his, her or its control
shall be subject to a fine of $250 for the first offense and not more
than $500 for each subsequent offense. Each day on which such a machine
is owned, operated, rented or permitted on the premises shall result
in an additional fine. Any violation of this Chapter shall be enforced
in the Municipal Court of the Township of Montague.
