Sections
16 entriesSection 22950Allows the division to be known and referred to as the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act or the STAKE Act.…Section 22950.5Defines department, enforcing agency, smoking, and tobacco product for the division. Includes electronic smoking devices and oral devices used to circumvent smoking…Section 22951Establishes legislative findings only, declaring that reducing and ultimately eliminating illegal tobacco purchases and consumption by persons under 21 is critical to…Section 22952Requires the State Department of Public Health to run under-21 tobacco enforcement, require point-of-sale warnings and identification checks, conduct inspections using supervised…Section 22953Requires all civil penalties collected by the department and other state agencies under the division to be deposited in the State Treasury…Section 22954Requires licensed cigarette or tobacco distributors and wholesalers, and permitted cigarette vending-machine operators, to provide specified retailer or customer names and addresses…Section 22955Establishes that State Department agents conducting enforcement activities under the division are peace officers. Extends to those agents, in the same manner…Section 22956Requires every person engaged in the retail sale of tobacco products to check a purchaser's identification to establish the purchaser's age when…Section 22957Allows an enforcing agency other than the department to inspect and assess penalties for division violations if it complies with the division…Section 22958Sets civil penalties for furnishing tobacco to persons under 21 at $1,000–$1,500 first, $2,000–$3,000 second, $5,000–$10,000 third, $10,000–$20,000 fourth, and at least…Section 22959Sets an annual $2 million transfer from the portion of the federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment block grant allocated for state…Section 22960Prohibits cigarette or tobacco-product sales, offers, or distribution through vending machines or other coin- or token-operated vending devices, except that beginning January…Section 22961Prohibits tobacco-product advertising on outdoor billboards within 1,000 feet of any public or private elementary, junior high, or high school or public…Section 22962Prohibits self-service tobacco-product or paraphernalia displays and blunt-wrap advertising within two feet of food or beverages or below four feet. Exempts tobacco…Section 22963Prohibits postal or package delivery of tobacco to anyone under 21 and requires age verification before enrollment or distribution, and identification if…Section 22964Establishes the division as minimum statewide restrictions on the legal age to purchase or possess tobacco products while allowing local governments to…