Requirements for and restrictions on affixing stamps; handling of unstamped cigarettes for sale or distribution outside State.

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1. A wholesale dealer located within the borders of this State shall affix stamps to all applicable cigarette packages within 20 days after receipt. A wholesale dealer may set aside, without affixing stamps, only that part of the stock of the wholesale dealer that is identified for sale or distribution outside of the borders of this State. A wholesale dealer must identify any stock to be set aside pursuant to this subsection within 20 days after the receipt of that stock.

2. A wholesale dealer may affix stamps only to cigarette packages that the wholesale dealer has received directly from a person who holds a current permit to engage in business as a manufacturer or importer of cigarettes issued pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 5713.

3. If a wholesale dealer maintains stocks of unstamped cigarette packages as authorized pursuant to subsection 1, those unstamped cigarette packages must be stored separately from stamped cigarette packages and must not be transferred by the wholesale dealer to another facility of the wholesale dealer within the borders of this State or to any other person within the borders of this State.

4. A person shall not affix stamps to any cigarette packages except upon the premises described in the license of a wholesale dealer or upon other premises where authorized by regulation.

[Part 8:192:1947; A 1949, 598; 1951, 124; 1953, 142] — (NRS A 1973, 1006; 1977, 786; 1993, 2473; 2005, 1194; 2019, 625)


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