age to buy spray paint
Michael Wooten, WGRZ 6:44 PM. EDT July 19, 2017
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- One of our 2 On Your Side admirers emailed us allurement why her 70-year-old bedmate had to appearance his driver's authorization in adjustment to acquirement aerosol paint, so we set out to VERIFY an answer.
He fabricated the acquirement at the Home Depot abundance on Elmwood Avenue in North Buffalo. His wife, Nancy, asked if there was a new law that appropriate I.D. to buy the product. We begin no such new law.
In adjustment to get her an answer, we aboriginal alleged the store. An agent told 2 On Your Side that Home Depot does analysis drivers' licenses to accomplish abiding the client is at atomic 21. He anticipation maybe it was a accompaniment law, but he wasn't sure.
So we confused up the alternation and accomplished out to Matt Harrigan with Home Depot accessible relations. He beatific us a account saying, "we crave ID in the Buffalo bazaar at the administration of our vendor, Rustoleum. I'd acclaim blockage anon with them for added information."
That's what we did.
A agent eventually got to the basal of it.
"The City of Buffalo prohibits the auction of aerosol acrylic to anyone beneath the age of 18," said Vince Pierri, administrator of accessible relations for Rustoleum.
He referenced us to a City of Buffalo ordinance, which says the following:
It shall be actionable for any person, firm, business or association to sell, deliver, accord or accouter aerosol paint, aerosol or otherwise, or broad-tipped markers to bodies beneath 18 years of age.
Penalties for offenses. Any being or association or added business article that violates the accoutrement of this area shall be accusable of a Class B abomination amiss by a accomplished of not added than $500 and/or imprisonment for not added than three months and binding 100 hours of association service.
Further analysis showed us the Common Council anesthetized a resolution instituting the ban on aerosol acrylic sales to amateur afterwards abuse to Delaware Park aback in 2011.
Buffalo isn't alone. Some added municipalities, including New York City, additionally accept restrictions on companies affairs aerosol acrylic to adolescent people. In the Big Apple, you accept to be 21. It's allotment of an anti-graffiti initiative.
Nancy accepted the amend but still questioned why Home Depot would ask for I.D. from a 70-year-old man to prove he's at atomic 18. It's a actual fair question, don't you think?
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