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provides that a stricter local ordinance shall govern in the case of any inconsistency between the local ordinance and state law;36 and WHEREAS,the FDA law also expressly grants state and local governments the right to enact measures that are more restrictive than those in the federal law;37 and WHEREAS, the City of San Leandro has a substantial interest in promoting compliance with federal, state, and local laws prohibiting the sale or furnishing of tobacco products and electronic cigarette products to minors; in discouraging the illegal purchase of tobacco and electronic cigarette products by minors; in promoting compliance with laws prohibiting sales of cigarettes and tobacco products to minors; and in protecting children from being lured into illegal activity through adult misconduct; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that a local licensing system for tobacco retailers is appropriate to ensure that retailers comply with tobacco control laws and business standards of the City of San Leandro, to protect the health, safety, and welfare of residents; and WHEREAS, a requirement for a tobacco retailer license will not unduly burden legitimate business activities of retailers who sell or distribute cigarettes or other tobacco products or electronic cigarettes to adults. It will, however, allow the City to regulate the operation of lawful businesses to discourage violations of federal, state, and local tobacco and electronic cigarette-related laws; and WHEREAS, it is the intent of the City Council, in enacting this ordinance, to ensure compliance with the business standards and practices of the City of San Leandro and to encourage responsible tobacco retailing and to discourage violations of tobacco-related laws, especially those which prohibit or discourage the sale or distribution of tobacco and nicotine products to minors, but not to expand or reduce the degree to which the acts regulated by federal or state law are criminally proscribed or to alter the penalties provided therein; and WHEREAS, the amendments to the Municipal Code propose to add Chapter 4.36 as shown in Exhibit A, which exhibit is attached and incorporated herein by reference. Now, therefore, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does ordain as follows: SECTION I. Recitals. The above recitals are true and correct and made a part of this ordinance. SECTION II. CEQA. Approval of the amendments is exempt from further environmental review under the general rule in California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) that CEQA only applies to projects that have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. As a series of text amendments and additions, it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the ordinance will have a significant effect on the environment. 361d. 3721 U.S.C. § 387p(a)(1). ORDINANCE NO. 2017-017 6