Subject: 9903/Code/Sec25-35/DisseminationOfSmokingMaterialsToMinors
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1989 12:20:00 -0500


                              ORDINANCE NO.   9903 
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                   PART II, CHAPTER 25, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION
                   25-35, RELATIVE TO DISSEMINATION OF SMOKING
                   MATERIALS TO MINORS.
                  
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
       	    	 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE:
       	    	 SECTION 1.  That Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter
       25, be and is hereby amended so as to add a new Section 25-35 as
       follows:
           
            Sec. 25-35.	   Dissemination of Smoking Materials to
                           Minors.
           
            	 (a)  Definitions.
           
            	 (1)  "Disseminate" means to sell, offer to sell,
                      give or otherwise transfer to a minor.
           
            	 (2)  "Minor" means any unemancipated person under
                      eighteen (18) years of age.
           
            	 (3)  "Purchase" means to buy, attempt to buy or
                      offer to buy.
           
            	 (4)  "Smokeless tobacco product" means chewing
                      tobacco, snuff, or any other tobacco product,
                      the consumption of which does not require the
                      ignition thereof.
           
            	 (5)  "Smoking paraphernalia" means a cigarette
                      holder, cigarette papers, smoking pipe, water
                      pipe or other item that is designated
                      primarily to hold smoking material while the
                      smoking material is being smoked.
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            	 (b)  It shall be unlawful for any person to
            disseminate smoking material, smoking paraphernalia or
            any smokeless tobacco product to a minor within the
            City.
           
           
       	    	 SECTION 2.  That this ordinance shall be effective two
       (2) weeks from and after its passage as provided by law.
      
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading July 13, 1993.	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
      
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:   X   DISAPPROVED: _______
      
       	    	      	   	     DATE:  July 15, 1993.
      
      
       	    	      	   	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	       	    MAYOR
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