§ 18.2-246.10 Shipping requirements
Each person who mails, ships, or otherwise delivers cigarettes in connection with a delivery sale:
1. Shall include as part of the shipping documents a clear and conspicuous statement providing as follows: “Cigarettes: Virginia Law Prohibits Shipping to Individuals Under 21, and Requires the Payment of all Applicable Taxes”;
2. Shall use a method of mailing, shipping, or delivery that obligates the delivery service or any party making delivery to require (i) the consumer placing the purchase order for the delivery sale, or an adult of legal minimum purchase age, to sign to accept delivery of the shipping container, and (ii) proof, in the form of a valid, government-issued identification bearing a photograph of the individual who signs to accept delivery of the shipping container, demonstrating that he is either the addressee who is of legal minimum purchase age or another adult of legal minimum purchase age. However, proof of the legal minimum purchase age shall be required only if such individual appears to be under 27 years of age; and
3. Shall provide to the delivery service retained for such delivery sale evidence of full compliance with § 18.2-246.12.
History
This law was first created in 2003. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 1010 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapters 90 and 102.
2003, c. 1010; 2019, cc. 90, 102.