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What is NYC AC § 17-704?

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This section establishes minimum package sizes for the sale of cigarettes and various tobacco products, including little cigars, snus, shisha, and loose tobacco. The statute mandates that these products be sold in specified minimum quantities and bear required health warnings. Applies to retail dealers selling tobacco products.

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§ 17-704 Minimum package sizes.

AC § 17-704

a. No retail dealer shall sell or offer for sale any cigarettes or tobacco products unless such cigarettes or tobacco products are sold in the package, box, carton or other container provided by the manufacturer, importer or packager which bears any such health warning as may be required by federal statute, rule or consent order. a-1. No retail dealer shall sell or offer for sale cigarettes unless the cigarettes are sold in a package of at least twenty cigarettes. b. [Reserved.] c. No retail dealer shall sell or offer for sale a little cigar unless the little cigar is sold in a package of at least twenty little cigars. d. No retail dealer shall sell or offer for sale snus unless it is sold in a package of at least 0.32 ounces, and any other smokeless tobacco unless it is sold in package of at least 1.2 ounces. e. No retail dealer shall sell or offer for sale shisha or non-tobacco shisha unless any such shisha is sold in a package of at least 3.5 ounces. f. No retail dealer shall sell or offer for sale loose tobacco unless the loose tobacco is sold in a package of at least 1.5 ounces. (Am. L.L. 2017/145, 8/28/2017, eff. 6/1/2018) Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2013/097 and L.L. 2017/145.

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