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SECTION 1399-KK
Annual tobacco and vapor product enforcement reporting
Public Health (PBH) CHAPTER 45, ARTICLE 13-F
§ 1399-kk. Annual tobacco and vapor product enforcement reporting. The
commissioner shall submit to the governor and the legislature an interim
tobacco control report and annual tobacco control reports which shall
describe the extent of the use of tobacco products and vapor products,
intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption
of nicotine, by those under twenty-one years of age in the state and
document the progress state and local governments have made in reducing
such use among those under twenty-one years of age.

1. The interim tobacco control report. The commissioner shall submit
to the governor and the legislature an interim tobacco control report on
or before September first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight. Such interim
report shall, to the extent practicable, include the following
information on a county by county basis:

(a) number of licensed and registered tobacco retailers and vendors;

(b) the names and addresses of retailers and vendors who have paid
fines, or have been otherwise penalized, due to enforcement actions;

(c) the number of complaints filed against licensed and registered
tobacco retailers;

(d) the number of fires caused or believed to be caused by tobacco
products and deaths and injuries resulting therefrom;

(e) the number and type of compliance checks conducted; and

(f) such other information as the commissioner deems appropriate.

2. The commissioner shall submit to the governor and the legislature
an annual tobacco and vapor products, intended or reasonably expected to
be used with or for the consumption of nicotine, control report which
shall describe the extent of the use of tobacco products and vapor
products, intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the
consumption of nicotine, by those under twenty-one years of age in the
state and document the progress state and local governments have made in
reducing such use among those under twenty-one years of age. The annual
report shall be submitted to the governor and the legislature on or
before March thirty-first of each year beginning on March thirty-first,
nineteen hundred ninety-nine. The annual report shall, to the extent
practicable, include the following information on a county by county
basis:

(a) number of licensed and registered tobacco retailers and vendors
and licensed vapor products dealers;

(b) the names and addresses of retailers and vendors who have paid
fines, or have been otherwise penalized, due to enforcement actions;

(c) the number of complaints filed against licensed and registered
tobacco retailers and licensed vapor products dealers;

(d) the number of fires caused or believed to be caused by tobacco
products and vapor products, intended or reasonably expected to be used
with or for the consumption of nicotine, and deaths and injuries
resulting therefrom;

(e) the number and type of compliance checks conducted;

(f) a survey of attitudes and behaviors regarding tobacco use among
those under twenty-one years of age. The initial such survey shall be
deemed to constitute the baseline survey;

(g) the number of tobacco and vapor product, intended or reasonably
expected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine, users and
estimated trends in tobacco and vapor product, intended or reasonably
expected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine, use among
those under twenty-one years of age;

(h) annual tobacco and vapor product, intended or reasonably expected
to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine, sales;

(i) tax revenue collected from the sale of tobacco products and vapor
products, intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the
consumption of nicotine;

(j) the number of licensed tobacco retail outlets and licensed vapor
products dealers;

(k) the number of cigarette vending machines;

(l) the number and type of compliance checks;

(m) the names of entities that have paid fines due to enforcement
actions; and

(n) the number of complaints filed against licensed tobacco retail
outlets and licensed vapor products dealers.

The annual tobacco and vapor product, intended or reasonably expected
to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine, control report
shall, to the extent practicable, include the following information: (a)
tobacco and vapor product, intended or reasonably expected to be used
with or for the consumption of nicotine, control efforts sponsored by
state government agencies including money spent to educate those under
twenty-one years of age on the hazards of tobacco and vapor product,
intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption
of nicotine, use;

(b) recommendations for improving tobacco and vapor product, intended
or reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption of
nicotine, control efforts in the state; and

(c) such other information as the commissioner deems appropriate.