L-6.2 - Tobacco Control Act

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14.1. Tobacco may not be sold retail except in a tobacco retail outlet, with both the operator of the retail outlet or an employee of the operator and the purchaser physically present.
For the purposes of this Act,
(1)  a tobacco retail outlet is a fixed place permanently delimited by continuous floor-to-ceiling partitions or walls that is accessible only through an opening equipped with a door and in which tobacco is sold retail by the operator of the place;
(2)  a person other than a tobacco farmer or a tobacco product manufacturer or distributor who is in possession of or holds a quantity of tobacco that exceeds the amount the person needs for personal consumption is presumed, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, to engage in the retail sale of tobacco.
2005, c. 29, s. 18.