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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2015

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - CHILDREN

     Introduced By: Representatives Tanzi, Ackerman, Handy, Lombardi, and Maldonado

     Date Introduced: January 29, 2015

     Referred To: House Health, Education & Welfare

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 11-9-13 of the General Laws in Chapter 11-9 entitled "Children" is

hereby amended to read as follows:

     11-9-13. Purchase, sale or delivery of tobacco products to persons under eighteen --

Posting notice of law. -- Purchase, sale or delivery of tobacco products to persons under

twenty-one (21) -- Posting notice of law. --No person under eighteen (18) twenty-one (21) years

of age shall purchase, nor shall any person sell, give, or deliver to any person under eighteen (18)

twenty-one (21) 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, electronic nicotine-delivery systems, 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.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - CHILDREN

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     This act would increase the minimum age to buy and sell tobacco products from eighteen

(18) years to twenty-one (21) years.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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