Ordinance No. 068 Tobacco and Nicotine Regulation

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grocery stores, tobacco products shops, convenience stores, liquor stores, gasoline service stations, bars, and restaurants. 14. Sale. "Sale" shall mean any transfer of goods for money, trade, barter, or other consideration. 15. Self -Service Merchandising. "Self -Service Merchandising" shall mean open displays of licensed products in any manner where any person shall have access to said items without the assistance or intervention of the Licensee or an employee of the Licensee, said assistance or intervention entailing the actual physical exchange of licensed products between the Licensee or employee of the Licensee. 16. Self -Service Sales. "Self -Service Sales" shall mean any sale of licensed products where there is not an actual physical exchange of said items between the customer and the Licensee or an employee of the Licensee. 17. Tobacco or Tobacco Products. "Tobacco" or "Tobacco Products" shall mean any substance or item containing tobacco leaf, including but not limited to: cigarettes; cigars; pipe tobacco; snuff; fine cut or other chewing tobacco; cheroots; stogies; perique; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready -rubbed, and other smoking tobacco; snuff flowers; cavendish; shorts; plug and twist tobaccos; dipping tobaccos; refuse scraps; clippings, cuttings, and sweepings of tobacco; and other kinds and forms of tobacco leaf prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing, sniffing, or smoking. 18. Tobacco -Related Devices. "Tobacco -Related Devices" shall mean any tobacco product as well as pipes, rolling papers, or other devices intentionally designed or intended to be used in a manner which enables the chewing, sniffing, or smoking of Tobacco or Tobacco Products. 19. Vending Machine. "Vending Machine" shall mean any mechanical, electric or electronic, or other type of device which dispenses licensed products upon the insertion of money, tokens, or other forms of payment directly into the machine by the person seeking to purchase licensed products. Section 3. 1. License Required. It shall be unlawful for any Person to sell or offer for sale licensed products without first having obtained a license to do so from the City of Gem Lake. 2. Application. An application for a license to sell licensed products shall be made on a form provided by the City Clerk of the City of Gem Lake and shall be submitted to the City Clerk along with fees as required by this Ordinance. The application shall contain the full name of the applicant, the applicants title as part of the Retail Establishment, the name of the Retail Establishment for which the license is sought, the applicant's residential and Retail Establishment addresses and telephone numbers, a complete list of all officers, owners, and/or shareholders of the Retail Establishment and the owners, officers and/or shareholders residential addresses and telephone numbers. 1. Moveable Place of Business. The City shall not process any application received from a Moveable Place of Business for a license in accordance with this Ordinance and said application shall be immediately returned to the Applicant with a notice that said Applicant is ineligible for a license in accordance with Section 4.1.6 of this Ordinance. 3. Procedures for Review of Application. Upon receipt of an application by the City, the Administrator shall employ the following procedures in the issuance of the license: 1. Complete Application. The City Clerk shall review all information contained in any application received to determine that same is complete and, if found incomplete, shall return the application to the Applicant with notice of the information necessary to make the Application complete. Ordinance No. 68 Tobacco Regulation