Contra Costa County Municipal Code Art. 88-26.2 General

The primary purposes of this chapter are to restrict the concentration of tobacco retailing businesses in any one area; to minimize the availability of tobacco products to minors by prohibiting tobacco retailing businesses from locating near schools and other youth-sensitive areas; and to prohibit hookah lounges, vapor lounges, and significant tobacco retailing businesses, which have a deleterious effect upon adjacent areas.

(Ord. No. 2017-10, § II, 7-11-17)

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases have the following meanings:

(a) "Hookah lounge," also referred to as a "hookah bar," means any facility, building, structure, or location where customers smoke tobacco or other substances through one or more hookah pipes (also commonly referred to as a hookah or waterpipe).

(b) "Significant tobacco retailing business" means any tobacco retailing business for which twenty percent or more of floor or display area is devoted to tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, or both.

(c) "Tobacco paraphernalia" and "tobacco product" have the definitions set forth in Section 445-2.006.

(d) "Tobacco retailing" means selling, offering for sale, or exchanging or offering to exchange for any form of consideration, tobacco, tobacco products, or tobacco paraphernalia. This definition is without regard to the quantity of tobacco products or tobacco paraphernalia sold, offered for sale, exchanged, or offered for exchange.

(e) "Tobacco retailing business" means any facility, building, structure, or location that is used, whether as a primary use or as an ancillary use, for tobacco retailing.

(f) "Tobacco retailer's license" means a license issued in accordance with Section 445-10.010.

(g) "Vapor lounge," also referred to as a "vape lounge," "vapor bar," "electronic smoking device bar," or "electronic smoking device lounge," means any facility, building, structure, or location where customers use one or more electronic smoking devices; as defined in Section 445-2.006, to deliver an inhaled dose of nicotine or other substance within the establishment.

(Ord. No. 2017-10, § II, 7-11-17)