HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 10-2014 - Amend City Code 5.35, Realted to Tobacco-Related Products - 03/13/2014 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO. 10-2014
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA AMENDING CITY
CODE SECTION 5.35 AND ADOPTING BY REFERENCE CITY CODE CHAPTER 1 AND
SECTION 5.99 WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS CONTAIN PENALTY PROVISIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA ORDAINS:
1. Section 1, City Code Chapter 5, Section 5.35, Subd. 2 D is hereby deleted in its entirety and
replaced with the following:
"Tobacco-related products"means any product 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, 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; but does not include cigarettes as defined in this
section. Tobacco-related 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 for other medical purposes, and is being
marketed and sold solely for such an approved purpose. Tobacco—related products
includes electronic cigarettes defined as any electronic-smoking device that can be used
to deliver nicotine or any other substances to the person inhaling from the device,
including but not limited to electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic pipes or
any other similar device.
Section 2. City Code Chapter 1 entitled "General Provisions and Definitions Applicable to the Entire
City Code Including Penalty for Violation" and Section 5.99 entitled "Violation a Misdemeanor" are
hereby adopted in their entirety, by reference, as though repeated verbatim herein.
Section 3. This ordinance shall become effective from and after its passage and publication.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie on the 18th day of
February, 2014, and finally read and adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of the City
Council of said City on the 4th day of March, 2014.
(�/Z_,ee,�e
Kat en Porta, City Clerk IN-kicy T -Lu s, yor
Published in the Eden Prairie News on the 13`h day of March, 2014.