(A) All licensed products shall be stored behind a counter or other area not freely accessible to customers or in a case or other storage unit not left open and accessible to the general public. It shall be unlawful for a licensee to allow the sale of licensed products by any means whereby the customer may have access to those items without having to request the item from the licensee or the license’s employee and whereby it is not a physical exchange of the licensed product between the licensee or their employee and the customer. Any retail establishment selling licensed products at the time this section is adopted shall comply with this section within 90 days following the effective date of this section.
(B) The sampling of tobacco and tobacco- related devices is permitted within the indoor area of a tobacco products shop only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
(Ord. 480, passed 11-25-1996; Am. Ord. 662, passed 11-28-2016; Am. Ord. 691, passed 8-26-2019)