Sec. 11.2. (a) This section does not apply to a tobacco business:
(1) operating as a tobacco business before April 1, 1996;
(2) that began operating as a tobacco business after April 1, 1996, if at the time the tobacco business began operating the tobacco business was not located in an area prohibited under this section; or
(3) that began operating after June 30, 2020.
(b) A person may not operate a tobacco business within two hundred (200) feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school, as measured between the nearest point of the premises occupied by the tobacco business and the nearest point of a building used by the school for instructional purposes.
(c) A person who violates this section commits a Class C misdemeanor.
As added by P.L.256-1996, SEC.11. Amended by P.L.49-2020, SEC.34.