§ 11-9-13 Purchase, sale or delivery of
tobacco products to persons under eighteen – Posting notice of law. –
No person under eighteen (18) years of age shall purchase, nor shall any person
sell, give or deliver to any person under eighteen (18) years of age, any
tobacco in the form of cigarettes, bidi cigarettes, cigars, little cigars,
flavored cigars known as "blunts" unflavored "blunts", flavored and unflavored
blunt wraps, cigarette rolling papers of any size or composition, cigarillos,
and tiparillos, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, or snuff. Any person, firm, or
corporation that owns, manages, or operates a place of business in which
tobacco products are sold, including sales through cigarette vending machines,
shall post notice of this law conspicuously in the place of business in letters
at least three-eighths of an inch ( 3/8") high.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 281, § 28; G.L. 1909, ch. 347, § 29; G.L. 1923, ch.
399, § 28; G.L. 1938, ch. 610, § 28; G.L. 1956, § 11-9-13; P.L.
1987, ch. 84, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 159, § 1; P.L. 1996, ch. 321,
§ 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 124, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 149, § 1; P.L.
2011, ch. 88, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 98, § 1.)