Furnishing cigarettes or other tobacco or vapor products to persons under 21 - Punishment.

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Any person who shall furnish to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) by gift, sale or otherwise any cigarettes, cigarette papers, cigars, bidis, snuff, chewing tobacco, or any other form of tobacco product, nicotine product or vapor product shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine in the amount of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than ten (10) days nor more than ninety (90) days for each offense. For the purposes of this section, the term "vapor product" shall have the same meaning as provided in the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco Act.

Added by Laws 1915, c. 190, § 1. Amended by Laws 1917, c. 148, p. 238, § 1; Laws 1985, c. 54, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 2002, c. 76, § 1, emerg. eff. April 15, 2002; Laws 2014, c. 162, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014; Laws 2020, c. 70, § 2, emerg. eff. May 19, 2020; Laws 2021, c. 554, § 2, emerg. eff. May 28, 2021.


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