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Board upholds 45‑day suspension of AMPM Market tobacco permit
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The Board of Appeals unanimously upheld a 45‑day suspension of AMPM Market's tobacco-sales permit after Department of Public Health presented evidence of a second sale to a minor decoy; owner argued employee error and financial hardship but commissioners found the penalty reasonable under the health code.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Aug. 11 upheld a 45‑day suspension of the tobacco-sales permit for AMPM Market at 5898 Mission Street after the Department of Public Health presented evidence that a clerk sold cigarettes to a minor decoy on Jan. 23, 2010.
DPH attorney John Cena Ojo told the board the sale was a second offense within 12 months for the owner’s store and cited San Francisco health code section 1009.66,…
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