As used in the Master Settlement Agreement Complementary Act:
1. "Brand family" means all styles of cigarettes sold under the same trademark and differentiated from one another by means of additional modifiers or descriptors, including, but not limited to, "menthol", "lights", "kings", and "100s", and includes any brand name alone or in conjunction with any other word, trademark, logo, symbol, motto, selling message, recognizable pattern of colors, or any other indicia of product identification identical or similar to, or identifiable with, a previously known brand of cigarettes;
2. "Cigarette" has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 600.22 of Title 37 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
3. "Tax Commission" means the Oklahoma Tax Commission;
4. "Master Settlement Agreement" has the same meaning as in Section 600.22 of Title 37 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
5. "Nonparticipating manufacturer" means any tobacco product manufacturer as defined in Section 600.22 of Title 37 of the Oklahoma Statutes that is not a participating manufacturer;
6. "Participating manufacturer" has the meaning given that term in Section II(jj) of the Master Settlement Agreement as defined in Section 600.22 of Title 37 of the Oklahoma Statutes and all amendments to the Master Settlement Agreement;
7. "Qualified escrow fund" has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 600.22 of Title 37 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
8. "Stamping agent" means any entity that is authorized under subsection A of Section 304 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes to affix any tax stamps issued by the Oklahoma Tax Commission to packages of cigarettes, or any entity authorized pursuant to Section 415 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes to pay to the Oklahoma Tax Commission any tobacco products tax; and
9. "Units sold" has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 600.22 of Title 37 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Added by Laws 2004, c. 266, § 3, emerg. eff. May 6, 2004.