No licensee or other person shall sell or permit to be sold or give cigarettes or other tobacco products to an individual appearing younger than the age of twenty-seven (27) without requesting and examining photographic identification establishing the purchaser’s age as eighteen (18) years of age or greater. A reasonable belief that by a licensee or other person that the person purchasing or accepting cigarettes or other tobacco products is eighteen (18) years or older is not a defense to any action under this Article unless said licensee or other person shall have demanded and received some form of positive identification that such person is eighteen (18) years or older.
(Prior Code, Art. 30, § 8)