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557.02 SALES OF CIGARETTES OR TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO MINORS: PROHIBITIONS AND MISREPRESENTATIONS. (a) No person shall sell cigarettes or tobacco products to a person under the age of eighteen years, or buy cigarettes or tobacco products for, or furnish such material to, a person under the age of eighteen years, unless such is done by a parent or legal guardian. (b) No person under the age of eighteen years shall purchase cigarettes or tobacco products. (c) No person under the age of eighteen years shall order, pay for, share the cost of, or attempt to purchase cigarettes or any tobacco product except as provided in subsection (a) hereof. (d) No person under the age of eighteen years shall knowingly show or give false information concerning his name, age or other identification for the purpose of purchasing or otherwise obtaining cigarettes or tobacco products in any place in the Municipality where cigarettes or tobacco products are sold under a permit issued by the County. (e) No person shall knowingly furnish any false information as to the name, age, or other identification of any person under eighteen years of age for the purpose of obtaining or with the intent to obtain, cigarettes or tobacco products for a person under eighteen years of age, by purchase or as a gift. (Ord. 81-61. Passed 6-1-81.) 557.03 POSTING CIGARETTE AGE WARNING SIGNS. (a) Every place in the Municipality where cigarettes or tobacco products are sold, whether by person or by vending machine, under a license issued by the County, shall display at all times, in a prominent place on the premises thereof, or in a prominent place of such cigarette vending machine, a printed card which shall be furnished by the Municipal corporation at a fee of three dollars ($3.00) per sign, and which sign shall read substantially as follows: "WARNING TO PERSONS UNDER AGE" If you are under the aize of 18: under the ordinances of the City of North Olmsted, if you order, pay for, share the cost of or attempt to purchase any cigarettes or tobacco product, or furnish false information as to name, age or other identification, you are subject to a fine up to five hundred dollars ($500.00)." (b) No person being the holder of a license or the servant or agent of a license to sell cigarettes issued by the County, shall fail to comply with this section. 557.06 POSSESSION AND USE OF CIGARETTES AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS BY MINORS PROHIBITED. (a) Definitions_ (1) "Cigarettes" and "Tobacco products" have the same meanings as in Section 557.01 of this Chapter. (2) "Youth Smoking Education Program" means a private or public agency program that is related to tobacco use, prevention, and cessation, that is carried out or funded by the Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation pursuant to Section 183.07 of the Ohio Revised Code, that utilizes educational methods focusing on the