Stores selling vaping products would, for the first time, need a state permit to do business under legislation aiming to beef up enforcement of Virginia’s ban on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to underage buyers.
In addition to requiring stores selling liquid nicotine vapes to have a state permit, the legislation, House Bill 308, gives the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority board power to revoke a tobacco sales permit, and to levy fines of $1,000 for a first violation of state tobacco sales laws, $5,000 for a second violation within five years and $10,000 for a third violation within five years.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
