39-17-1506 - Required postings.

39-17-1506. Required postings.

(a)  Every person who sells tobacco products at retail shall post conspicuously and keep so posted at the place of business a sign, no smaller than ninety-three and one-half (93½) square inches, to ensure that it is likely to be read at each point of sale, stating the following:

STATE LAW STRICTLY PROHIBITS

THE SALE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS OR SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA

TO PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS

PROOF OF AGE MAY BE REQUIRED

(b)  Unless another notice is required by federal law, the notice required by this section and the notice required by § 39-15-411 shall be the only notice regarding tobacco products required to be posted or maintained in any store that sells tobacco products at retail.

[Acts 1994, ch. 872, § 6; 1999, ch. 354, § 8.]