City of Milwaukee - File #: 121634

• File #: 121634
• Version: 0
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/21/2013
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 4/9/2013
• Effective date: 4/26/2013
• Title: An ordinance relating to sale of cigarettes and tobacco products.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: SMOKING

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/25/2013	0	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
4/18/2013	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
4/9/2013	0	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	15:0
3/28/2013	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE; Minutes note: Individual appearing: Tom Wessel - License Division Manager	Pass	5:0
3/26/2013	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/26/2013	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/26/2013	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/22/2013	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/21/2013	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
121634
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
An ordinance relating to sale of cigarettes and tobacco products.
Sections
106-30-1-d am
106-30-2-a am
106-30-3-b rp
106-30-3-c rp
106-30-3-d ra
106-30-3-e rn
Analysis
This ordinance amends code provisions relating to the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products to make the provisions consistent with state and federal law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products from vending machines. The ordinance also repeals obsolete provisions relating to the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products from vending machines.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 106-30-1-d of the code is amended to read:

106-30. Sale of Tobacco to Persons Under 18.
1. DEFINITIONS. In this section:
d. "Tobacco products" means: cigars; cheroots; stogies; periques; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready-rubbed and other smoking tobacco; snuff; snuff flour; cavendish; plug and twist tobacco; fine-cut and other chewing tobaccos; shorts; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco and other kinds and forms of tobacco prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing or smoking in a pipe or otherwise, or both for chewing and smoking; but does not include cigarettes, as defined under [[s.139.30(1)]] >>s.139.30(1m)<< , Wis. Stats.

Part 2. Section 106-30-2-a of the code is amended to read:

106-30. Sale of Tobacco to Persons Under 18.
2. PROHIBITION. a. No retailer may sell or give to any person under the age of 18 any cigarette or tobacco products at any time [[, except as provided in s. 254.92(2(a)), Wis. Stats A vending machine operator is not liable under this section for the purchase of cigarettes or tobacco products from his or her vending machine by a person under the age of 18 if the vending machine operator was unaware of the purchase]].

Part 3 Section 106-30-3-b and c of the code is repealed.

Part 4 Section 106-3...