[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Montville by Ord. No. 1308 as Ch. 5.56 of the 1998 Code; amended
in its entirety 4-25-2017 by Ord.
No. 2017-17. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
An electronic or other powered device that can be used to
deliver nicotine or other substances to the person inhaling from the
device, including, but not limited to, an electronic cigarette, cigar,
cigarillo, hookah, pipe or any cartridge or other component of the
device or related product.
Any establishment, person, entity or business that sells
electronic smoking or vapor devices including, but not limited to,
an electronic cigarette, cigar, cigarillo, hookah, pipe or other smoking
or vapor device, or any cartridge or other component of the device
or related product.
Any area of a structurally enclosed place of business, commerce,
or other service-related activity, whether publicly or privately owned,
or operated on a for-profit or nonprofit basis, which is accessible
to the public, including, but not limited to, a commercial or other
office building; office or building owned, leased, or rented by the
state or by a county or municipal government; public and nonpublic
elementary or secondary school building; Board of Education building;
theater or concert hall; public library; museum or art gallery; bar;
restaurant or other establishment where the principal business is
the sale of food for consumption upon the premises, including in the
bar area of the establishment; garage or parking facility; any public
conveyance operated on land or water, or in the air, and passenger
waiting rooms and platform areas in any stations or terminals thereof;
health care facility licensed pursuant to P.L. 1971, c.136 (N.J.S.A.
26:2H-1 et seq.); patient waiting room of the office of a health care
provider licensed pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes; child-care
center licensed pursuant to P.L. 1983, c.492 (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-1 et
seq.); race track facility; facility used for the holding of sporting
events; ambulatory recreational facility; shopping mall or retail
store; hotel, motel or other lodging establishment; apartment building
lobby or other public area in an otherwise private building; a passenger
elevator in a building other than a single-family dwelling; or any
exterior area if smoking in said area results in migration, seepage,
or recirculation of smoke into an indoor public place as described
in this definition. The time of entry allowed into an indoor public
place by workers or members of the public is irrelevant to the issue
of whether the area is deemed accessible to the public.
An individual, firm, partnership, cooperative, association,
corporation, personal representative, receiver, trustee, assignee
or any other legal entity, and their agents, representatives, and
employees.
Any Township-owned parks or recreational fields, but does
not include any parking lot that is adjacent to, but outside of, the
public park or field.
[Added 6-11-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-20]
Delivery of tobacco and/or electronic smoking or vapor devices,
whether the same is by direct sale or the solicitation or acceptance
of an order, including the exchange, barter, traffic in, keeping and
exposing for sale, displaying for sale, delivering for value, peddling
and possession with intent to sell.
Any shelving or storing of cigarettes or tobacco products
in an area of the establishment to which customers have access and/or
in a location where the customer could reach the cigarettes or tobacco
products and take same without the assistance of an employee of the
establishment.
The heating, igniting, or burning of a tobacco product, inhaling
smoke or vapor from, exhaling smoke or vapor from, or the possession
of a lighted cigar, cigarette, cigarillo, electronic smoking device,
hookah, pipe, water pipe, vapor device, or any other matter or device
which contains tobacco or any other matter or substance that can be
smoked or inhaled.
Any product made from the tobacco plant for the purpose of
smoking, chewing, inhaling, and any other personal consumption, including
cigars, smokeless or chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, snuff, and cigarettes
in any form, and any matter or substance which contains tobacco or
nicotine, and any other matter or substance that can be inhaled or
exhaled as smoke or vapor from any device or delivery system, and
any component, part, accessory of a tobacco product.
Any establishment, or area inside of an establishment, designated
specifically for the smoking of tobacco products, purchased on the
premises or elsewhere, including, but not limited to, cigar bars,
cigar lounges, hookah bars, and hookah lounges, and any establishment
in which at least 51% of retail business is the sale of tobacco products
and accessories, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars,
cigarillos, chewing tobacco, hookahs, pipes or other smoking device,
and in which the sale of other products is merely incidental.
Any automated, self-service device which, upon insertion
of money, tokens or any other form of payment, dispenses cigarettes
or other tobacco products, and/or electronic smoking and vapor devices.
The Department of Health, Police Department and any other designated
Montville Township official shall, as often as is necessary, inspect
premises within the Township for the purpose of determining compliance
with the provisions of this chapter. It shall be unlawful for any
person to deny entry to or to deny full access of the entire premises
to such officials, or to hinder such officials in any manner.
[Amended 6-11-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-20]
A.Â
Smoking
prohibited. Smoking of any kind, for any reason, is prohibited at
any indoor public place, public park or field as defined in this chapter.
B.Â
Signage
required. "No Smoking" signs or the international no smoking symbol
(consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed
in a red circle with a diagonal red line through its cross-section)
shall be posted at each public indoor public place entrance and within
said public place, as well as at conspicuous locations on parks and
fields, in a number and in a manner sufficient to inform the public
that there is no smoking allowed within the public places or in any
such park or field. The signs may contain a warning that smoking in
a designated no smoking area is subject to a fine. The failure to
post any such sign shall not be a defense to a violation of this chapter.
C.Â
Designated
smoking areas. The Township Committee, with the input of the Township
Administrator, shall designate areas outside all Township-owned buildings
where smoking shall be permitted. Smoking shall be permitted in any
parking areas which are located outside of a public place, public
park or field. Appropriate signage designating an area as one in which
smoking is permitted shall be posted.
D.Â
Enforcement.
The Recreation Director or designee, the Health Officer or designee
and the Police Department are hereby charged with the enforcement
of this section. All members of the Recreation Department, Health
Department and the Police Department are hereby designated as enforcement
officers for the purpose of enforcement of this section.
E.Â
Violations
and penalties. Any person violating or failing to comply with any
provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof for a first
offense, be punishable by a fine of up to $200 as determined by the
Municipal Court.
A.Â
It is unlawful for any person to offer for sale, or to give or furnish,
any tobacco product or electronic smoking or vapor devices or related
accessories through a vending machine unless the machine meets the
following requirements for operations:
[Amended 12-10-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-38]
(1)Â
The operation of the vending machine to dispense tobacco products
is possible only by the activation of an electronic switch or electronic
device, which is controlled by the proprietor of the establishment
or an employee designated by the proprietor, which employee is over
the age of 19 years. The electronic switch or device, which activates
the machine, shall operate in such a fashion that the vending machine
shall remain in the off position until activated for each individual
sale.
(2)Â
The proprietor or employee shall, before activating the machine,
make the determination by examination of two forms of identification,
including a photo identification, that the person wishing to use the
machine is 21 years of age or older.
(3)Â
The vending machine must be located in the establishment within the
line of sight of the person responsible for operating the locking
device.
B.Â
Self-service cigarette or tobacco product or electronic smoking or
vapor device product displays are prohibited, and it is unlawful to
offer for-profit or not-for-profit cigarettes or tobacco products
or electronic smoking or vapor device products from self-service displays
of same.
[Amended 2-8-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-01]
B.Â
Fees. The annual licensing fee for electronic smoking or vapor device establishments, or tobacco retail establishments, shall be $250 per year as outlined in Chapter 169, Fees.
C.Â
Electronic smoking or vapor device establishments and tobacco retail establishments are subject to periodic compliance inspections by the Health Department. Fees for the reinspection of any establishment which is necessitated by violations of any of the provisions set forth in this chapter observed during an initial inspection shall be as provided in Chapter 169, Fees.
D.Â
Electronic smoking or vapor device establishments and tobacco retail
establishments must be conducted inside a place of business located
within a retail zone. A license will only authorize sales of related
devices and/or products at the place of business identified on the
application.
E.Â
It shall be unlawful for an electronic smoking or vapor device establishment
or a tobacco retail establishment to conduct any business, including
allowing the use or sampling of the devices or related products, outdoors
within 50 feet of the establishment.
A.Â
Application for an electronic smoking or vapor device establishment
license or a tobacco retail establishment license shall be submitted
on forms to be furnished by the Health Department. The application
shall be accompanied by the applicable license fee in cash, check
or money order.
B.Â
A renewal license may be applied for by a licensee for premises licensed
during the previous licensed period.
C.Â
Each and every applicant for a license for an electronic smoking
or vapor device establishment or tobacco retail establishment shall
set forth the following information in writing:
(1)Â
The applicant's name, business name, business address, applicant's
phone number and the business's phone number.
(2)Â
The applicant's email address.
(3)Â
If the applicant is an individual, the applicant's residential address.
(4)Â
If the applicant is a partnership, corporation, limited liability
corporation, or any other type of business entity, the applicant shall
set forth the full name and residence address of each partner, member
or officer of the business entity.
(5)Â
If the applicant is a partnership, corporation, or limited liability
company, the applicant must submit a certificate from the State of
New Jersey that the business entity, regardless of form, is in good
standing, according to the records of the State of New Jersey.
A.Â
The granting of an electronic smoking or vapor device establishment
license or tobacco retail establishment license shall be by the Health
Officer. The Health Officer shall not issue or renew a license until
he/she has confirmed that the establishment is in compliance with
all provisions set forth within this chapter.
C.Â
The term of the license shall be for one year, commencing from the
date of issuance of the license and expiring December 31 of that calendar
year.
[Amended 12-10-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-38]
A.Â
No person,
either directly or indirectly by an agent or employee, shall sell,
offer for sale, offer for sample, distribute for commercial purposes
at no cost or minimal cost or with coupons or rebate offers, give
or furnish, to a person under 21 years of age, any electronic smoking
or vapor device or tobacco product that can be used to deliver nicotine
or any other substances to the person inhaling from the device, including,
but not limited to, an electronic cigarette, cigar, cigarillo, hookah,
pipe or device of another form, or any cartridge or other component
of the electronic smoking or vapor device or related products in any
location, whether licensed or not.
B.Â
An electronic
smoking or vapor device establishment or tobacco retail establishment
must require proof of age from any customer who is of the appearance
of 26 years of age or younger. Proof must come in the form of a valid
government-issued photo ID.
C.Â
Signage
must be conspicuously posted at the point of display and at the point
of sale. The sign must state the following in English with letters
no less than one inch in size as follows:
(1)Â
"A
person who sells or offers to sell tobacco products or electronic
smoking or vapor devices, components, cartridges or related products
to a person less than 21 years of age shall pay a penalty of up to
$1,000 and may be subject to a license suspension or revocation. Proof
of age may be required for purchase. Those persons or establishments
in violation shall be prosecuted."
(2)Â
"Smoking,
sampling or using tobacco products or electronic smoking or vapor
devices inside this place of business is prohibited by New Jersey
State law. Those establishments or individuals in violation shall
be prosecuted."
A.Â
Licenses issued under this chapter may be revoked or suspended by
the Board of Health, after a public hearing. Reasons for automatic
suspension or revocation of an establishment license include but are
not limited to the following:
(1)Â
Fraud, misrepresentation or false statement in the application for
the establishment license.
(2)Â
Fraud, misrepresentation or false statement made while operating
the licensed business in the Township.
(3)Â
Conducting the licensed business within the Township in an unlawful
manner or in such a manner as to constitute a menace to the health,
safety or general welfare of the public.
(4)Â
The owner and/or operator or any employee refuses to permit any duly
authorized Township Police Officer or health official to inspect the
premises or the operations therein.
(5)Â
Any violation of this chapter.
B.Â
In addition to any penalty prescribed, any license under this chapter
is subject to revocation for violating any provision of this chapter
or where the operation of the licensed premises is otherwise detrimental
to the preservation of the health, safety and welfare of the public.
The Township Department of Health shall serve the licensee with a
written complaint setting forth specifically the grounds of the complaint
along with a notice indicating the time and place to appear before
the Board of Health for a hearing. Such service shall be made by personal
service or certified and regular mail at least 10 days before the
hearing date. The Board of Health after such hearing may revoke the
license. If the license-holder does not appear at the hearing, said
nonappearance shall be considered acceptance of the charges and the
license shall be suspended or revoked as detailed in this chapter.
C.Â
Should it be determined that the conduct of the licensee is detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare of the public, such establishment's license may be suspended by the Health Officer or designee and the establishment shall close until all violations are corrected. The Health Officer may also recommend revocation of the license and suspend the license pending the revocation hearing before the Board of Health referred to in Subsection B above. This hearing must be concluded within 45 days of the date of the suspension and closure of the establishment.
The Health Department, Police Department, and any other designated
Montville Township official shall implement, administer, and enforce
this chapter, and are hereby authorized to issue all rules and regulations
consistent with this chapter, and shall have all necessary powers
to carry out the purposes of this chapter and to enforce this chapter,
and are authorized to issue citations for any violation of this chapter.
A.Â
Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof, be subject to a fine of not less than $250 for the first
offense, not less than $500 for the second offense, and not less than
$1,000 for the third and each subsequent violation.
B.Â
Each and every day that a violation of this chapter is found to exist
shall constitute a unique and separate violation of this chapter.
