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Riverside extends moratorium on new tobacco retail permits amid concerns about illegal sales and neighborhood impacts
Summary
After presentations from police and public-health advocates, the council unanimously extended an emergency moratorium on issuing new tobacco retail permits for 10 months and 15 days to study land-use, enforcement and public-health options and to align local rules with incoming state laws.
The Riverside City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to extend an emergency moratorium on issuing new tobacco retail establishment permits for an additional 10 months and 15 days, continuing a pause originally enacted as a 45-day urgency ordinance.
Deputy Chief Payne told the council that police investigations had uncovered illegal contraband at several smoke-shop locations and that the current permit and enforcement scheme made it difficult to deter and…
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