13-3622. Furnishing of tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia to underage person; underage person accepting or receiving tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia; illegally obtaining tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia by underage person; classification; definitions

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A. A person who knowingly sells, gives or furnishes a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for smoking or ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, to a person who is under twenty-one years of age is guilty of a petty offense.

B. Except as provided in section 36-798.07, a person who is under twenty-one years of age and who buys, or has in the person's possession or knowingly accepts or receives from any person, a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for smoking or ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, is guilty of a petty offense, and if the offense involves any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for smoking or ingesting tobacco or shisha, shall pay a fine of at least $100 or perform at least thirty hours of community restitution.

C. A person who is under twenty-one years of age who misrepresents the person's age to another person by means of a written instrument of identification with the intent to induce the other person to sell, give or furnish a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for smoking or ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, in violation of subsection A or B of this section is guilty of a petty offense and, notwithstanding section 13-802, shall pay a fine of not more than $500.

D. This section does not apply to any of the following:

1. Cigars, cigarettes or cigarette papers, smoking or chewing tobacco or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for smoking or ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, if it is used or intended to be used in connection with a bona fide practice of a religious belief and as an integral part of a religious or ceremonial exercise.

2. Any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for smoking or ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, that is given to or possessed by a person who is under twenty-one years of age if the instrument or paraphernalia was a gift or souvenir and is not used or intended to be used by the person who is under twenty-one years of age to smoke or ingest tobacco or shisha.

E. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Shisha" includes any mixture of tobacco leaf and honey, molasses or dried fruit or any other sweetener.

2. "Tobacco product" means any of the following:

(a)Cigars.

(b)Cigarettes.

(c)Cigarette papers of any kind.

(d)Smoking tobacco of any kind.

(e)Chewing tobacco of any kind.

3. "Vapor product":

(a)Means a noncombustible tobacco-derived product containing nicotine that employs a mechanical heating element, battery or circuit, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to heat a liquid nicotine solution contained in cartridges.

(b)Does not include any product that is regulated by the United States food and drug administration under chapter V of the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act.