Section I. General
Sec. 6-7-101. Findings and purpose.
The purpose of this Article is to establish tobacco product retail licensing in the Town of Telluride to ensure compliance with the business standards and practices of the Town, to encourage responsible tobacco product retailing, to discourage violations of tobacco product laws that prohibit the sale or distribution of tobacco products to young people and to reduce the likelihood that youth will become tobacco product users by prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to persons under twenty-one (21) years of age but not to expand or reduce the degree to which the acts regulated by federal or state law are criminally proscribed or to alter the penalties provided therein to protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents of Telluride. (Ord. 1499 §1 (Exh. A), 2020)