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urn: urn:us-la:rs:26:910
citation: "R.S. 26:910"
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breadcrumb: "Title 26 › Chapter 7"
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  - { year: 2014, number: 278, section: 2, effective_date: 2014-05-28, role: amendment }
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  - { year: 2022, number: 34, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
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# Vending machines

In order to prevent persons under twenty-one years of age from purchasing or receiving tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products from vending machines, the sale or delivery of such products through a vending machine is prohibited unless either of the following apply:

(1) The machine is located in an establishment to which persons under the age of twenty-one are denied access.

(2) The machine is located in facilities where the dealer ensures that no person younger than twenty-one years of age is present or permitted to enter at any time and the machine is located within the unobstructed line of sight of a dealer or a dealer's agent or employee who is responsible for preventing persons younger than twenty-one years of age from purchasing tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products through that machine.