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Board trims tobacco-sales suspension for Powell Street market to 20 days

San Francisco Board of Appeals · November 18, 2009
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Summary

The Board reduced a 25-day suspension imposed by the Department of Public Health for selling tobacco to a minor at Grama & Son Market, voting 4–1 to lower the penalty to 20 days after hearing a translator and learning it was the clerk's first offense and that legibility of the decoy ID was a factor.

The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Nov. 18 cut a 25-day suspension of tobacco sales at Grama & Son Market (1321A Powell Street) to 20 days, finding mitigating circumstances but upholding the regulatory goal of restricting tobacco sales to minors.

Department of Public Health representative described a May undercover decoy operation that…

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