GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 852

Short Title:  No Cigarette Sales to Minor.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Gottovi; Flaherty and Warner.
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Referred to:  Judiciary III.
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April 17, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE UNLAWFUL THE SALE OF CIGARETTES TO ANY PERSON WHO IS LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD. 
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 14-313 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-313. Selling cigarettes to minors.
If any person shall sell, give away or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, cigarettes, or tobacco in the form of cigarettes, or cut tobacco in any form or shape which may be used or intended to be used as a substitute for cigarettes, to any minor under the age of 18 years, or if any person shall aid, assist or abet any other person in selling such articles to such minor, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment for not more than six months, or both."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1991, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.