28-1425 Licensees; sale of tobacco to persons under the age of eighteen years; penalty. - Nebraska Statutes

28-1425. Licensees; sale of tobacco to persons under the age of eighteen years; penalty.Any licensee who shall sell, give or furnish in any way to any person under the age of eighteen years, or who shall willingly allow to be taken from his place of business by any person under the age of eighteen years, any cigars, tobacco, cigarettes or cigarette material, shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor. Any officer, director, or manager having charge or control either separately or jointly with others, of the business of any corporation which violates the provisions of sections 28-1420 to 28-1429, if he have knowledge of the same, shall be subject to the penalties provided in this section. In addition to the penalties provided in this section, such licensee shall be subject to the additional penalty of a revocation and forfeiture of his, their, or its license, at the discretion of the court before whom the complaint for violation of said sections may be heard. If such license be revoked and forfeited, all rights under such license shall at once cease and terminate. SourceLaws 1919, c. 180, § 6, p. 402; C.S.1922, § 9854; C.S.1929, § 28-1028; R.S.1943, § 28-1027; Laws 1957, c. 100, § 3, p. 360; Laws 1977, LB 40, § 106; R.R.S.1943, § 28-1027, (1975).