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[ Introduced ][ House Amendment 001 ]

90_HB0207eng

      65 ILCS 5/11-20-3.1 new
          Amends the Illinois  Municipal  Code.   Provides  that  a
      municipality  may  provide for the regulation, licensing, and
      inspection of any retail business  or  establishment  selling
      cigarettes  or  other  tobacco  products,  may  determine the
      number of licenses, and may determine the location for sales.
                                                     LRB9000662MWpc
HB0207 Engrossed                               LRB9000662MWpc
 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois  Municipal  Code  by  adding
 2    Section 11-20-3.1.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Illinois Municipal  Code  is  amended  by
 6    adding Section 11-20-3.1 as follows:
 7        (65 ILCS 5/11-20-3.1 new)
 8        Sec.  11-20-3.1.  Regulation  of  tobacco  vendors.   The
 9    corporate  authorities  of a municipality may provide for the
10    regulation, licensing, and inspection of any retail  business
11    or establishment that is engaged in the selling of cigarettes
12    or  other  tobacco  products.  The corporate authorities of a
13    municipality shall have the power  by  general  ordinance  to
14    determine  the  location  for the sale of cigarettes or other
15    tobacco products.  However,  any  business  or  establishment
16    that  has  been  engaged  in the retail sale of cigarettes or
17    other tobacco products for the 30 days immediately  preceding
18    the  effective  date  of  a licensing ordinance adopted under
19    this Section shall, upon application, be  issued  a  license,
20    which shall be subject to all the terms and conditions of the
21    licensing  ordinance,  regardless  of  any  limitation on the
22    number of licenses adopted by the  corporate  authorities  of
23    the  municipality.   The  municipality  shall not grant a new
24    license to a business  or  establishment  to  engage  in  the
25    retail  sale  of  cigarettes or other tobacco products for as
26    long as  the  number  of  outstanding  licenses  exceeds  any
27    limitation  on  the  number of licenses that the municipality
28    has adopted.

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