(A) In addition to violations specified elsewhere in this chapter, the following acts are prohibited and shall be a violation of this chapter.
(1) It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person under the age of 21 to purchase or attempt to purchase or otherwise obtain any licensed product. This subdivision shall not apply to persons lawfully involved in a compliance check.
(2) It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person to purchase or otherwise obtain licensed products on behalf of a person under the age of 21.
(3) It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person to coerce or attempt to coerce a person to illegally purchase or otherwise obtain or use any licensed product. This subdivision shall not apply to persons lawfully involved in a compliance check.
(4) It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person to disguise his or her true age by the use of a false form of identification, whether the identification is that of another person or one on which the age of the person has been modified or tampered with to represent an age older than the actual age of the person presenting the identification.
(5) It shall be a violation of this chapter for a person to sell or offer to sell any liquid, whether or not such liquid contains nicotine, which is intended for human consumption and use in an electronic delivery device, that is not contained in “child-resistant packaging” as the term is defined and is required in M.S. § 461.20.
(B) The use of electronic cigarettes including the inhaling or exhaling of vapor from any electronic delivery device and any other use of electronic delivery devices are prohibited in:
(1) All public meetings and public places except a retail establishment with an entrance door opening directly to the outside that derives more than 90% of its gross revenue from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs and cigars, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, pipes, and related smoking or vaping devices and accessories and in which the sale of other products is merely incidental.
(2) All health care facilities and clinics, except as provided in M.S. § 246.0141, relating to smoking by patients in locked psychiatric units.
(3) All public transportation vehicles. Nothing in this section shall prevent the proprietor or other person in charge of any place including, without limitation, any residence, motor vehicle or outdoor space, from prohibiting use of electronic cigarettes or electronic delivery devices in any such place.
(Ord. 2015-09, passed 7-6-2015; Am. Ord. 2020-05, passed 9-21-2020)