O'Fallon, MO Business Licensing & Operations: Tobacco Retail License (2026)
Key Facts
- License required
- Retail sales tax license to sell tobacco
- Underage sales
- Banned to anyone under 18
- Vending machines
- Need lock-out device or adult supervision
- Signage
- Warning sign required at point of sale
- Default penalty
- Up to $500 fine, 90 days jail
- Youth-sale fines
- $25 / $100 / $250 escalating
Summary
O'Fallon Code Section 215.640 bars anyone from selling cigarettes or tobacco products in the city without a retail sales tax license, folding tobacco sales into the same license-first framework the City uses for youth-access rules, paraphernalia limits, and mandatory warning signage under Chapter 215's tobacco article.
No person shall sell cigarettes or tobacco products unless the person has a retail sales tax license.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4860992; v58 updated 2026-05-14; through 05-14-2026).
Full Breakdown
670, covers more than the license mandate. 610 to include any substance containing tobacco leaf, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing and dipping tobacco, though it does not separately define vapor or e-cigarette products. 630 separately makes it an infraction for a minor to purchase, attempt to purchase, or possess tobacco, punishable by confiscation and, on a second offense, a mandatory tobacco-education or smoking-cessation program. 650, in red lettering at least half an inch tall, quoting the state law against underage sales and displaying a crossed-out cigarette pack marked Under 18, at every point of sale and on every vending machine.
635 confines on-site display, sale, or distribution of tobacco paraphernalia to dedicated retail tobacco stores, defined as outlets where more than 70% of sales volume is tobacco-related. 620(D): $25 for a first offense, $100 for a second, and $250 for a third or later offense. 010.
Violations & Fines
Selling tobacco products without the Section 215.640 retail sales tax license is not assigned its own fine, so it defaults to the City's general penalty under Section 100.010: up to $500 and up to 90 days in jail. Separately, selling or providing tobacco to a minor carries its own escalating schedule under Section 215.620(D), $25 for a first offense, $100 for a second, and $250 for a third or later offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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