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Tobacco Licenses currently issued: <br />Tobacco Stores: The Hookah Hideout and Little Canada Smoke Shop <br />General Sales & Display: Gas-n-Go, Little Canada bp, Hoggsbreath, Tierney Liquors and <br />Kath SuperAmerica <br />Staff worked with ANSR and the Public Health Law Office at Mitchell Hamline School of Law to <br />review our existing tobacco code language and draft an ordinance that makes the necessary updates. <br />They also review the code for best practices, state law compliance and clarity. The proposed <br />Ordinance 838 amends each section that addresses the legal purchasing age to increase it from 18 to 21 <br />years old, updates definitions that govern the regulation of tobacco and tobacco products. The City is <br />still covered under the State law that prohibits smoking under the age of 18. The law office also <br />recommended adding language for due process and severability. <br />The first public hearing was held at the April 24, 2019 City Council meeting. A representative from <br />ANSR gave a presentation in support of raising the age to purchase tobacco to 21 in Little Canada, and <br />six people spoke in support of the ordinance. There were 22 attendees in the audience in support of the <br />ordinance and no attendees that were not in support of the ordinance. <br />State Statute requires a written notice to tobacco retailers 30 days prior to Council action on this <br />tobacco ordinance. Letters were mailed to the seven tobacco license holders on April 2, 2019. Staff <br />will notify all tobacco license holders of the Council action on Ordinance 838. <br />Staff recommends Ordinance 838 go into effect on July 1, 2019. <br />STAFF RECOMMENDATION: <br />Hold the second Public Hearing and adopt Ordinance 838 that would raise the legal age to purchase <br />tobacco and tobacco related products in Little Canada to age 21. Staff recommends that the Council <br />approve publication of the attached summary ordinance. Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section <br />412.191, in the case of a lengthy ordinance, a summary may be published. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />-Summary Publication of Ordinance 838 <br />-Draft of Ordinance 838 showing changes <br />-Final draft of Ordinance 838