As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
Any police or peace officer or law enforcement official or the Administrative
or Health Officer of the Alexandria Township Board of Health, and/or his or
her authorized representatives, including representatives of the Hunterdon
County Health Department.
PERSON
An individual, partnership, cooperative, association, corporation,
personal representative, receiver, trustee, assignee or any other legal entity.
TOBACCO PRODUCT
Any product made from the tobacco plant or containing tobacco leaf,
for the purpose of smoking, chewing, inhaling or other personal use, including
but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff
and dipping tobacco.
TOBACCO RETAILER
Any person or entity that operates a store, stand, booth, concession
or place at which sales of tobacco are made to purchasers for consumption
or use; shall also mean a person or entity that owns, operates or uses a vending
machine and/or a vending machine location.
TOBACCO VENDING MACHINE
Any mechanical, electrical or electronic self-service device, which,
upon insertion of monies, tokens or any other form of payment, dispenses tobacco
or tobacco products, either exclusively or as one kind of an available item.
The following 6 inch by 8 inch sign shall be posted in a conspicuous
place near each cash register in all retail establishments which sell tobacco
products, in addition to any sign required by state law:
SALE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS PROHIBITED
BY LAW. Legal proof of age must be shown. A person who sells or offers to
sell a tobacco product to a person under 18 years of age shall be prosecuted
in accordance with state and local law.
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It shall be unlawful for a tobacco retailer to sell or permit to be
sold tobacco to any individual without first requesting and examining identification
from the purchaser positively establishing the purchaser's age as 18
years or greater, unless the seller has some other conclusive basis for determining
the buyer is over the age of 18 years.
In view of the indiscriminate sales of tobacco products to minors through
tobacco vending machines, all tobacco vending machines are hereby prohibited
in the Township of Alexandria. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
corporation or association to possess, own, operate, rent or permit the use
of, or operation of, a tobacco vending machine in, on, or about the premises
under his or her ownership, control or management or to sell, or offer for
sale any tobacco product through a tobacco vending machine in the Township
of Alexandria.
Self-service cigarette displays are prohibited in all retail establishments
in the Township of Alexandria.
All tobacco vending machines and self-service cigarette displays made
unlawful by the terms of this chapter shall be removed within 30 days from
the effective date of this chapter.