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Ordinance 885 Page 7 Subd. 14. Smoking. a. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke within the indoor area of any retail establishment with a tobacco retailer license. Smoking for the purposes of sampling tobacco and tobacco related products, tobacco related devices or electronic delivery devices is prohibited. b. Notwithstanding paragraph (a), pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 144.4167, subdivision 4, a cigar may be lit in a retail establishment if all of the following circumstances are met: 1. The smoking is by a customer or potential customer, who is not a minor, for the specific purpose of sampling cigars; 2. The retail establishment has an entrance door opening directly to the outside; 3. The retail establishment is not a tobacco department or section of any individual business establishment with any type of liquor, food, or restaurant license; and 4. The retail establishment derives more than 90 percent of its gross revenue from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, and other smoking devices for burning tobacco and related smoking accessories and in which the sale of other products is merely incidental. c. Any cigar lighting allowed under paragraph (b) shall be prohibited in the licensee's retail establishment if the licensee transfers title to, relinquishes management or control, sells the retail establishment, or the licensee's tobacco license is suspended or revoked by the City. 512.04: FEES: No license shall be issued under this Chapter until the appropriate license fee shall be paid in full. The fee for a license under this Chapter shall be established in the City's Fee Schedule, as it may be amended from time to time.