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File Number: 17-603 <br />fund a compliance monitoring program operated by the Police Department. If violations are <br />discovered, tobacco retailers are subject to the below penalties: <br />1. First Violation: Written warning and thirty days to cure the violation. <br />2. Second Violation: Licensee fined two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) <br />3. Third Violation: License suspended for 20 days. <br />4. Fourth Violation: License revoked and license cannot be issued to retailer or the retail <br />location for three years. <br />In addition to administrative penalties, the ordinance permits criminal and civil enforcement by the <br />City. <br />First Reading and Revisions from the October 2, 2017 City Council Meeting: <br />The City Council voted 4-3 to conduct a first reading and introduce the ordinance with the <br />following changes: <br />1. Revise the timeframe for calculating violations from violations occurring during a <br />sixty-month (5 years) period to violations occurring during a thirty-six-month (3 years) <br />period. <br />2. Revise and clarify the minimum pack size and price requirement for cigars to reflect that <br />cigars, including all cigar products, cannot be sold in a package of less than $7 per five <br />Cigars, including all applicable taxes and fees, except for single cigars sold for more than <br />$5. <br />Effective Date: <br />The draft ordinance provides that it shall not become operative until March 1, 2018. <br />Page 3 City of San Leandro Printed on 10/10/2017 <br />177