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File #: Ord 14-34    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Unsigned by Mayor
In control: City Council
Final action: 8/27/2014
Title: Amending Chapter 324 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code pertaining to single cigar packaging regulation.
Sponsors: Dai Thao
Attachments: 1. Single Cigar Packaging Regulation Purpose and Findings of Fact, 2. Kintopf support of tobacco ordinance, 3. Kottke letter supporting tobacco ordinance, 4. SPACC Letter on Single Item Cigar Sales, 5. Mills email supporting tobacco ordinance, 6. ASANDC Youth letter re tobacco ordinance, 7. Clearway Minnesota Letter re tobacco ordinance, 8. Magnesa email re tobacco ordinance, 9. TC Medical Society Letter supporting Ord #14-34, 10. American Cancer Society letter re tobacco ord, 11. Ramsey Tobacco Coalition postcards re single cigar sales, 12. MN Service Station and Convenience Store Assn letter re single cigar sales, 13. SuperAmerica letter opposing cigar ordinance, 14. MN Grocers Assn Letter of Opposition to Proposed Tobacco Ordinance No. 14-34, 15. McCormick letter opposing Ord 14-34, 16. MnRA letter re Ordinance 14-34, 17. MN Dept of Health letter, 18. National Association of Tobacco Outlets Letter, 19. 2012-Annual-Synar-Report, 20. FDA Tobacco Retail Inspections Contracts, 21. FDA St. Paul Retail Inspections (2012-2014), 22. Emails and Calls Against the Ordinance, 23. Abdelbasit email opposing cigar ordinance, 24. More Emails and Calls Against the Ordinance, 25. Ord 14-34 additional opposition, 26. Emails and Calls Against the Ordinance 3
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
8/29/20141 Mayor's Office Returned Unsigned  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/27/20141 City Council AdoptedPass Action details Meeting details Video Video
8/20/20141 City Council Public Hearing Closed; Laid Over to Fourth Reading/Final AdoptionPass Action details Meeting details Video Video
8/13/20141 City Council Laid Over to Third Reading/Public Hearing  Action details Meeting details Video Video
8/6/20141 City Council Laid Over to Second Reading  Action details Meeting details Video Video
Title
Amending Chapter 324 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code pertaining to single cigar packaging regulation.

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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
SECTION 1
Chapter 324.03 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 324.03. Definitions.
The following words and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall, for the purposes of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except in those cases where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(1) Cigarette paper and cigarette wrapper means and includes any paper or other substance or materials, except tobacco, used as a wrapper or cover for a cigarette, as herein defined.
(2) Sale means and includes any transfer, conditional or otherwise, of title or possession.
(3) Sale at retail means and includes all sales except those where the merchandise is sold for the purpose of resale by a person principally engaged in selling merchandise for resale.
(4) Tobacco means any products containing, made, or derived from tobacco that is intended for human consumption, whether chewed, smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by any other means, or any component, part, or accessory of a tobacco product, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, little cigars; cheroots; stogies; periques; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and other smoking tobacco; snuff; snuff flour; cavendish; plug and twist tobacco; fine-cut and other chewing tobacco; shorts; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco, and other kinds and forms of tobacco. Tobacco includes electronic cigarettes containing or delivering nicotine for the purposes of licensing and regulation under this chapter. Tobacco products excludes any tobacco product that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product, as a tobacco dependence product, or ...

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