Miramar, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Tobacco Retail License (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum purchase age
- 18, ID must be checked
- Vending machine sales
- prohibited outright
- Zoning status
- permitted by right, no LDC standard
- Governing ordinance
- Ord. No. 14-12, adopted 4-16-2014
- Maximum penalty
- $500 fine or 60 days jail
Summary
Tobacco retailers operate by right across Miramar's commercial zoning districts with no special Land Development Code standards attached, but City Code § 13-15 bans selling nicotine vaporizers or liquid nicotine to anyone under 18 and bans vending-machine sales of those products outright.
Nicotine vaporizer means any electronic or battery-operated device that can be used to deliver an inhaled dose of nicotine or other substances and includes those composed of a mouthpiece, heating element, and battery or electronic circuits that provide a vapor of liquid nicotine and/or other substances to the user. This term shall include such devices whether they are manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an electronic cigarette, an electronic cigar, an electronic cigarillo, an electronic pipe, an electronic hookah, an e-cigarette, an e-cigar, e-cigarillo, an e-pipe an e-hookah or under any other product name. (b)It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give or furnish a nicotine vaporizer or liquid nicotine to a person under the age of eighteen (18) years old. The buyer or recipient's identification shall be examined to confirm that the buyer or recipient is at least eighteen (18) years of age.(c)In order to minimize the physical accessibility to minors, it shall be unlawful for any person to offer a nicotine vaporizer or liquid nicotine in vending machines.(d)Any violation of this section shall be punishable under section 1-13, City Code.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 104 | Land Development Code: Supplement 46).
Full Breakdown
column marked "N/A," meaning the LDC imposes no separate locational or distance-separation standard on tobacco or vape retail the way it does for pain-management clinics or adult entertainment. The real restriction sits in the City Code's miscellaneous-offenses chapter. Section 13-15, "Sale of nicotine vaporizers or liquid nicotine to minors prohibited," defines "nicotine vaporizer" broadly to sweep in e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-cigarillos, e-pipes and e-hookahs under any product name, then makes it unlawful under subsection (b) for any person to sell, give or furnish a nicotine vaporizer or liquid nicotine to anyone under 18, requiring the seller to examine the buyer's identification to confirm age.
Subsection (c) goes further than many neighboring cities by banning nicotine-vaporizer or liquid-nicotine vending machines entirely, regardless of buyer age, to cut off minors' physical access. The ordinance was adopted as Ord. No. 14-12, § 2, on April 16, 2014, and subsection (d) ties enforcement to the City Code's general penalty section, § 1-13. A separate provision, § 13-16, bars smoking or consuming marijuana or cannabis in any public building, right-of-way or public space, showing the city regulates nicotine and cannabis products through distinct sections of the same chapter rather than a unified tobacco-retail license.
Violations & Fines
Selling, giving or furnishing a nicotine vaporizer or liquid nicotine to a minor, failing to check ID, or offering either product through a vending machine violates § 13-15 and is punishable under the City Code's general penalty section, § 1-13: a fine up to $500, imprisonment up to 60 days, or both, with each day a violation continues treated as a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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