Title:
Title
Ordinance Revisions to Chapter 5.138 of Sacramento City Code Relating to Tobacco Retailers (Passed for Publication 03/12/2019; Published 03/15/2019) [Continued from 03/26/2019]
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FileID
File ID: 2019-00385
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Adopt an ordinance revising Chapter 5.138 of the Sacramento City Code relating to Tobacco Retailers.
Contact: Jose Mendez, Code Enforcement Manager, (916) 808-5947, Community Development Department
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Presenter: Jose Mendez, Code Enforcement Manager, (916) 808-5947, Community Development Department
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Ordinance (Redline)
3-Ordinance (Clean)
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: At the July 24, 2018 Law and Legislation Committee session, the Committee instructed staff to prepare an ordinance that will: 1) update Chapter 5.138; 2) adopt a distance requirement between new tobacco retailers; and 3) adopt a prohibition of flavored tobacco products.
The use of tobacco has been a health and safety issue addressed by the City over the past several years. In 2003, the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services Tobacco Education Program found that 24.4 percent of tobacco retailers sampled in the City of Sacramento unlawfully sold tobacco products to minors. In 2004, the City adopted Sacramento City Code Chapter 5.138 to regulate tobacco retailers by requiring yearly non-transferrable licenses and conducting regular business compliance inspections, under-age sales sting operations, and license suspension and revocation proceedings. The program is designed to promote compliance with federal, state and local laws regulating tobacco sales and discourage the illegal sale and distribution of tobacco to minors. In 2009, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act was enacted which prohibits candy and fruit flavored cigarettes, however, a recent study by the California Department of Public Health estimates that 82 percent of...
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