§19-12F-6. Age verification requirements.

(a) Any website owned, managed, or operated by a person who manufactures, processes, distributes, offers for sale, or sells a product containing kratom or kratom products to persons in this state, shall prove that an individual is 21 years of age or older by requiring an individual to:

(1) Provide digital identification; or

(2) Comply with a commercial or governmental age verification system that verifies age using:

(A) Government-issued identification which may be digital identification; or

(B) A commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional data to verify the age of an individual.

(b) Any person or entity distributing, offering to distribute or sell, or selling kratom or kratom products to persons in this state by means other than a direct in-person transaction shall employ an age-verification mechanism approved by the commissioner.