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obtain a valid license for each machine pursuant to Section 1727.04.
<br />(b) A lioevsee, or any agent, employee or representative of said licensee, convicted of violating Section 521 14 of the
<br />Lakewood Codified Ordinances shall have his or her license subject to suspension pursuant to Section 1727 I 1
<br />1727.08 OUT-OF-PACKAGE SALES PROHIBITED.
<br />It is unlawful to sell cigarettes out of the manufactured package with required health warnings It is unlawful to sell cigarettes
<br />in packages offewer than twenty cigarettes per package.
<br />1727.09 TOBACCO SAMPLES PROHIBITED.
<br />No licensee shall knowingly distribute or famish without charge or at nominal charge, or cause [o be furnished or distributed
<br />without charge or a[ nominal charge, cigarettes or other tobacco products, or coupons for cigarettes or other tobacco products, in any
<br />public place or at any event open to the pu6lio, except in retail tobacco stores.
<br />1727.10 VENDOR ASSISTED SALES.
<br />R shall be unlawful for any person, business or tobacco retailer to sell, permit to be sold, or offer for sale any tobacco product
<br />by means of selfservice displays or any other means other than vendor-assisted sales.
<br />1727.11 SUSPENSION OF LICENSE.
<br />(a) A licensee, or any agent employee or representative of said licensee, convicted of violating Secion 521.. ]4 of the
<br />Lakewood Codified Ordinances shall have said license subject to su@pension after notice and an opportunity to be heard as Follows
<br />(1) In the case of a firs[ violation, the licensee shall be fined two hundred dollars ($200.00) and shall be
<br />notified in writing ofpenalties levied foi further violations.
<br />(2) In the case of a second violation in a two-year period, the licensee shall be fined five hundred dollars
<br />($500.00) and the license shall be suspended for not less than thirty consecutive business days or more than three months.
<br />Tobacco retailers must remove all tobacco merchandise from all areas accessible to the public while the license is suspended.
<br />(3) In the case of three or more violations within atwo-year period, the licensee shall be 5ned one thousand
<br />dollars ($1,000) and the license shall be suspended for not less than six months or more than eighteen months. Tobacco
<br />retailers must remove all tobacco merchandise from all areas accessible to the public while the license is suspended.
<br />(b) Tha Mayor or Director of Public Safety or his or her designee shall initiate the eMoroement of Section 1727.11(a)
<br />against license holders, and shall conduct hearings upon the license holder's request. A licensee must request a hearing with the Mayor
<br />or Director of Public Safey within ten days of the notice of the action taken under subsection (a) hereof Rulings made by the Mayor or
<br />Drector of Public Safety or his designee regarding the suspension of a license, after an adequate hearing, shall be final.
<br />1727.12 NONRETALTATION.
<br />No person or employer shall discharge, refuse to hire or in any manner retaliate against any employee, applicant for
<br />employment or customer because such employee, applicant or customer reported violations of any provisions ofthis chapter
<br />1727.13 PUBLIC EDUCATION.
<br />The Mayor or Director of Public Safety or his or her designee shall engage in a continuing program to explain and clarify the
<br />purposes and requirements of this chapter to citizens affected by it, and to guide owners and operators and manager in the'v compliance
<br />with i[. Public education will also promote an awareness of the grave health consequences of tobacco use.
<br />1727.1A SEVERABILITY.
<br />If any provisioq clause, sentence or paragraph of [his chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be
<br />held [o be lnvslid, each invalidity shall not affect the provisions of this ohapter whioh oan be given affect without the invalid provisions
<br />or application, and to this end [he provisions are declared to be severable.
<br />372799 PENALTY.
<br />A violation of any section of this chapter shall subject the licensee, or anyone required to be a licensee, to a fine of five
<br />hundred dollars ($500,00) per day for each violation. The Mayor or Director of Public Safey or his designee shall have the authority to
<br />enforce this chapter
<br />CHAPTER 1775
<br />Weeds
<br />1775.01 WEED, TALL GRASS, NUISANCE VEGETATION OR GROWTHS OVER SIDEWALKS REMOVAL.
<br />(a) The owner, occupant or person having the charge or management of any lot or parcel of land situated within the City,
<br />whether the same be improved or unimproved, vacant or occupied, within forty-eight hours written notice to do so, shall cut or destroy,
<br />or cause to be cut ocdestroyed, any noxious or poisonous weeds, including but not limited [o Russian, Canadian or common thistle, all
<br />wild lettuce, wild mustard, wild parsleg ragweed, milkweed, chickweed, wild garlic, quack grass, dodders, wild carrot wmmon cockle,
<br />docks, chicory or tall grasses growing upon such lot or parcel of land, and prevent the same from blooming or going to seed, or
<br />exceeding a height of six inches, or spreading pollen which may be harmful to fiuman health.
<br />(b) The owner, occupant or person having the charge or management of any lot or parcel of land situated within the City,
<br />whether the same be improved or unimproved, vacant or occupied, within forty-eight hours written notice to do so, shall cut or destroy,
<br />or cause to be cut or destroyed, any limbs fo trees, branches, bushes, shrubs, briars, or vines that projec(over any sidewalk so as to
<br />interfere with or deprive pedestrians of the free and full use of such sidewalk
<br />(e) If the owner, occupant or person having the charge or management of any loi or parcel of land does not cut or
<br />destroy, or cause to be cut or destroyed, noxious weeds, grosses, limbs, branches, bushes, sluubs, briars or vines as provided herein, the
<br />Mayor or Director of Public Safety is authorized to cause to be cut or destroyed such noxious weeds or grasses.
<br />(d) When any such noxious weeds, gasses, limbs, branches, bushes, shrubs, briars or vines are cut or destroyed by the
<br />City, as provided herein, then after such work is performed, [he City shall give five days' notice by regular mail to the owner, occupant or
<br />person having the charge or management of such lot or parcel of land, at his known address, to pay the cost of such cutting or desnnying
<br />of noxious weeds or gasses, which notice shall be accompanied by a statement of the amount of cost incurred. If the same is not paid
<br />within thirty days after [he mailing of the notice, such amount may be certified to the County Auditor for collection as other [axes and
<br />assessments are collected in accordance with Ohio R.C. 731 54, or the City may seek recovery of such costs by civil action against the
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