City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0385

• File #: 09-0385
• Version: 0
• Name: Tobacco Products - Unpackaged Cigarettes or Cigars
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 8/10/2009
• In control: City Council
• Title: Tobacco Products - Unpackaged Cigarettes or Cigars FOR the purpose of strengthening the prohibition against the sale or transfer of unpackaged cigarettes and extending that prohibition to include certain unpackaged cigars; defining and redefining certain terms; providing for certain exceptions; authorizing the Health Commissioner to take certain actions against a food service facility that violates these provisions; authorizing confiscation of items offered for sale or distribution in violation of these provisions; imposing certain criminal and civil penalties; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the sale or other distribution of unpackaged cigarettes and cigars.
• Sponsors: Robert Curran, Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry
• Indexes: Cigarettes, Cigars, Tobacco, Unpackaged

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/19/2009	0	City Council	Re-referred to Committee
10/5/2009	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably with Amendment
10/5/2009	0	City Council	Held for 1 meeting
9/14/2009	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
8/13/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/13/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/13/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/13/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/10/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
8/10/2009	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Curran

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Tobacco Products - Unpackaged Cigarettes or Cigars

FOR the purpose of strengthening the prohibition against the sale or transfer of unpackaged cigarettes and extending that prohibition to include certain unpackaged cigars; defining and redefining certain terms; providing for certain exceptions; authorizing the Health Commissioner to take certain actions against a food service facility that violates these provisions; authorizing confiscation of items offered for sale or distribution in violation of these provisions; imposing certain criminal and civil penalties; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the sale or other distribution of unpackaged cigarettes and cigars.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Health
Title 12, Subtitle 2, to be under the amended subtitle designation,
“Subtitle 2. Unpackaged Cigarettes and Cigars”
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
Section(s) 40-14(e)(7)(Title 12) and 41-14(6)(Title 12)
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Revised Co...