Laserfiche WebLink
File Number: 17-307 <br />Licensing Provisions and Enforcement: <br />The ordinance requires that all tobacco retailers obtain a tobacco retailers license from the <br />City. A tobacco retailers license requires the payment of an annual fee in order to fund costs <br />of administration and enforcement of the ordinance. The fees obtained from tobacco retailers <br />will fund a compliance monitoring program operated by the Police Department. If violations <br />are discovered, tobacco retailers are subject to the following penalties: <br />1. First Violation: Written warning and thirty days to cure the violation. <br />2. Second Violation: License revoked and retailer cannot reapply for license for 90 days. <br />3. Third Violation: License revoked and retailer cannot reapply for license for 120 days. <br />4. Fourth Violation: License revoked and license cannot be issued to retailer or for the <br />retail location for five years. <br />In addition to administrative penalties, the ordinance permits criminal and civil enforcement by <br />the City. <br />Effective Date: <br />Staff seeks direction regarding the effective date of the ordinance. In order to permit retailers <br />that currently have flavored tobacco and electronic cigarette inventory, the draft ordinance <br />provides that it shall not become operative until November 1, 2017. This provides <br />approximately an additional fifteen weeks from the effective date of the ordinance until it <br />becomes operative. <br />Page 3 City of San Leandro Printed on 5/30/2017 <br />191