In promoting the health, safety, and general welfare of its residents, the City of Culver City has a substantial interest in encouraging compliance with federal, State, and local laws regulating tobacco sales and use; discouraging the purchase and use of tobacco products by youth; increasing compliance with laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to youth; and in protecting children from being lured into illegal activity through the misconduct of adults. In enacting this Chapter, it is the intent of the City Council to encourage responsible tobacco retailing and to discourage violations of tobacco-related laws, especially those that prohibit or discourage the sale or distribution of tobacco and nicotine product to youth, but not to expand or reduce the degree to which the acts regulated by federal or State law are criminally proscribed or otherwise regulated.
(Ord. No. 2009-006 § 1 (part); Ord. No. 2019-013 § 1)