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In order to encourage and assist voluntary compliance with this Article, and subject to availability of funds, the City or its designee may conduct informational activities to notify and educate tobacco retailers and the public of this Article, including the following:
(1) Publication of this Article in local newspapers;
(2) Publication and distribution of materials explaining this Article to tobacco retailers, their employees and members of the public;
(3) Publication and distribution of materials on merchant education and local employee training resources geared towards preventing tobacco sales to minors; and
(4) Publication and distribution of materials on local programs and services geared towards youth tobacco use prevention, education and cessation.
(Added by Ord. 446-96, App. 11/27/96)
By prohibiting the self-service merchandising of tobacco products except in places to which minors have no access, the City and County of San Francisco is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. It is not assuming, nor is it imposing on its officers and employees, an obligation for breach of which it is liable in money damages to any person who claims that such breach proximately caused injury.
(Added by Ord. 446-96, App. 11/27/96)
If any provision of this Article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this Article, to the extent it can be given effect, or the application of those provisions to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby, and to this end the provisions of this Article are severable.
(Added by Ord. 446-96, App. 11/27/96)