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City of Lino Lakes Tobacco Ordinance Section I. Purpose: Because the city of Lino Lakes recognizes that many people under the age of 18 purchase or otherwise obtain, possess and use tobacco, tobacco products, and tobacco related devices, and such sales, possession, and use are violations of State and Federal laws; and because smoking has been shown to be the cause of several serious health problems which place a financial burden on all levels of government; this ordinance shall be intended to regulate the sale, possession, and use of tobacco, tobacco products, and tobacco related devices for the purpose of enforcing and furthering existing laws, to protect minors against the serious effects associated with the illegal use of tobacco, tobacco products, and tobacco related devices, and to further the official public policy of the State of Minnesota in regard to preventing young people from starting to smoke as stated in Minn. Statute 144.391. Section II. Definitions and Interpretations: Except as may otherwise be provided or clearly implied by context, all terms shall be given their commonly accepted definitions. The singular shall include the plural and the plural shall include the singular. The masculine shall include the feminine and neuter, and vice - versa. The term "shall" means mandatory and the term "may" means permissive. The following terms shall have the definitions given to them: Subd. 1 Tobacco or Tobacco Products: Any substance or item containing tobacco leaf, including but not limited to, cigarettes; cigars; pipe tobacco; snuff; fine cut or other chewing tobacco; cheroots; stogies; perique; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready - rubbed, and other smoking tobacco; snuff flowers; cavendish; shorts; plug and twist tobaccos; dipping tobaccos; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings, and sweepings of tobacco; and other kinds and forms of tobacco leaf prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing, sniffing, or smoking. Subd. 2 Tobacco Related Devices: Any tobacco product as well as a pipe, rolling papers, or other device intentionally designed or intended to be used in a manner which enables the chewing, sniffing, or smoking of tobacco or tobacco products. Subd. 3 Self Service Merchandising: Open displays of tobacco, tobacco products or tobacco related devices in any manner where any person shall have access to those items without the assistance or intervention of the licensee or the licensee's employees. The assistance or intervention shall entail the actual physical exchange of the item(s) between the customer or the licensee or employee. Subd. 4 Vending Machine: Any device which dispenses tobacco, tobacco products, or tobacco related devices upon insertion of money, tokens, or other form of payment directly into the device by the person seeking to purchase the tobacco, tobacco product, or tobacco related devices.