[BH Ord. 95-1, S 1]
The intent of this chapter is to protect the health, safety
and welfare of minors in this Township, especially in light of:
a. The Frankford Board of Health's determination, based on medical
and scientific evidence that cigarette smoking is a serious health
hazard and tobacco is an addictive drug, that the prevention of smoking
by minors is an important public health goal;
b. N.J.S.A. 2A:170-51 which bans the sale or furnishing of cigarettes
to minors in any form;
c. The fact that tobacco vending machines are used by minors to purchase
cigarettes and those machines are often placed so that merchants cannot
supervise the persons buying these cigarettes, and the cigarettes
are sold from the tobacco vending machines indiscriminately; and
d. The Surgeon General of the United States' call for a ban on
the sale of cigarettes by tobacco vending machines.
Without this chapter the Township of Frankford is unable to
prevent the sale of cigarettes to minors by vending machines.
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[BH Ord. 95-1, S 1]
It shall be unlawful for a tobacco retailer to offer for sale
or to sell tobacco through a tobacco vending machine in Frankford
Township.
[BH Ord. 95-1, S 1]
Any person owning, operating, renting or permitting the use
of a tobacco vending machine on premises under his or her control
in violation of this chapter, upon conviction shall be subject to
a fine of $250. Each day on which such a machine is owned, operated,
rented or permitted on the premises, in violation of this chapter,
shall result in an additional fine.