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Placed on first reading and referred to the Health and Human Services Committee 12/17/18, second reading 1/7/19. Please substitute for the original. Anderson, Bullock, George, Litten, O'Leary, O'Malley, Rader ORDINANCE NO. 7 6 -18 BY: AN ORDINANCE to take effect at the earliest period allowed by law, enacting Chapter 1727, Cigarette and Tobacco Vendors; Sales to Persons Under 21, and repealing Section 521.14, Sale of Tobacco and Alternate Nicotine Products to Minors Prohibited; Vending Machines, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood in order to amend and create regulations involving licensing for and sales of tobacco products. WHEREAS, Tobacco kills over 480,000 people in the United States each year, and more than 95% of addicted smokers start before age 21; and WHEREAS, the developing teenage brain is particularly vulnerable to the effects of nicotine, and about 350 youth become regular smokers each day in the United States; and WHEREAS, this Council has determined that these amended regulations shall be established in the Code as a matter of local self - government and a matter of local police powers; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Revised Code, municipalities have the power of local self - government; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Revised Code, municipalities have the power to enact laws that are for the health, safety, welfare, comfort and peace of the citizens of the municipality; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. Chapter 1727, Cigarette and Tobacco Vendors: Sales to Minors, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, currently reading as follows: CHAPTER 1727 Cigarette and Tobacco Vendors: Sales to Minors 1727.01 Definitions. 1727.02 Posting of signs. 1727.03 Identification required. 1727.04 License required. 1727.05 Fee. 1727.06 Nontransferability. 1727.07 Tobacco vending machines; illegal distribution of cigarettes or other tobacco products to minors. 1727.08 Out -of- package sales prohibited.