Title 97, Crimes

No retailer shall distribute tobacco products other than cigars and pipe tobacco for commercial purposes other than in a sealed package provided by the manufacturer with the required health warning. A retailer who is in violation of this section shall be liable for a penalty of n…

No distributor or wholesaler of tobacco products shall sell, distribute, deliver, or in any other manner transfer any tobacco products for sale at retail to any person not possessing a valid tobacco permit under Section 27-69-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972. Any distributor o…

It is the intent of the Legislature that enforcement of this chapter be implemented in an equitable manner throughout the state. The provisions of Sections 97-32-5, 97-32-7, 97-32-9, 97-32-11, 97-32-13, 97-32-15, 97-32-17, 97-32-19, 97-32-21 and 97-32-51 shall supersede any exist…

The Office of the Attorney General or local law enforcement agencies shall at least annually conduct random, unannounced inspections at locations where alternative nicotine products, tobacco or tobacco products are sold or distributed to ensure compliance with the Mississippi Juv…

It shall be unlawful to publish the name or identity of any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years who is convicted or adjudicated of any violation of this article.

(a) For the purposes of this article:(a) “Dealer” means every person, firm, corporation or association of persons, except retailers as defined herein, who receives the product from the manufacturer of tobacco for distribution, for sale, for use, or for consumption in the State of…

It shall be unlawful for any person, or retailer, to sell, barter, deliver or give tobacco products to any individual under twenty-one (21) years of age unless the individual under twenty-one (21) years of age holds a retailer’s license to sell tobacco under Section 27-69-1 et se…

(1) Every person engaged in the business of selling tobacco products or alternative nicotine products at retail shall notify each individual employed by that person as a retail sales clerk that state law:(a) Prohibits the sale or distribution of tobacco products or alternative ni…

(a) No person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall purchase any tobacco or alternative nicotine product. No student of any high school, junior high school or elementary school shall possess tobacco or alternative nicotine on any educational property as defined in Section 97-3…

This article shall be known and cited as “Mississippi Adult Tobacco Use on Educational Property Act of 2000.”

(1) “Adult” means any natural person at least eighteen (18) years old. (2) “Minor” means any natural person under the age of eighteen (18) years. (3) “Person” means any natural person. (4) “Tobacco product” means any substance that contains tobacco including, but not limited to, …

No person shall use any tobacco product on any educational property as defined in Section 97-32-27. Any adult who violates this section shall be subject to a fine and shall be liable as follows: (a) for a first conviction, a warning; (b) for a second conviction, a fine of Seventy…

(1) For the purposes of this chapter:(a) (i) “Alternative nicotine product” means:1. An electronic cigarette;2. Any other product that consists of or contains nicotine that can be ingested into the body by chewing, smoking, absorbing, dissolving, inhaling or by any other means;3.…

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person who is in, on or within one thousand five hundred (1,500) feet of a building or outbuilding which is all or part of educational property as defined by Section 97-37-17 to sell or furnish an alternative nicotine product to any individual und…