§1627. Definitions

As used in this Act*, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) "Agent" means any person authorized by the Department of Revenue to purchase and affix stamps on packages of cigarettes.

(2) "Cigarette" means any roll for smoking, whether made wholly or in part of tobacco or any other substance, regardless of size or shape, and whether or not such tobacco or substance is flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other material except where the wrapper is wholly or in greater part made of tobacco.

(3) "Manufacturer" means any of the following:

(a) Any entity which manufactures or otherwise produces cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in this state, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer.

(b) The first purchaser anywhere that intends to resell in the United States cigarettes, manufactured anywhere, that the original manufacturer or maker does not intend to be sold in the United States.

(c) Any entity that becomes a successor of an entity described in Subparagraph (a) or (b) of this Paragraph.

(4) "Quality control and quality assurance program" means the laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing. Such a program ensures that the testing repeatability remains within the required repeatability values pursuant to R.S. 40:1628(A) for all test trials used to certify cigarettes in accordance with this Act.

(5) "Repeatability" means the range of values within which the repeat results of cigarette test trials from a single laboratory will fall ninety-five percent of the time.

(6) "Retail dealer" includes every dealer other than a wholesale dealer, or manufacturer who sells or offers for sale cigars, cigarettes, or other tobacco products, irrespective of quantity or the number of sales.

(7) "Sale" means any transfer of title or possession or both, exchange, or barter, conditional or otherwise, in any manner or by any means whatever or any agreement therefor. In addition to cash and credit sales, the giving of cigarettes as samples, prizes, or gifts and the exchanging of cigarettes for any consideration other than money are considered sales.

(8) "Sell" means an act of selling, or to offer or agree to sell.

(9) "Wholesale dealer" means a dealer whose principal business is that of a wholesaler, who sells cigarettes, cigars, or other tobacco products to retail dealers for purpose of resale, who is a bona fide wholesaler, and fifty percent of whose total tobacco sales are to retail stores other than its own or its subsidiaries within Louisiana. Wholesale dealer shall include any person in the state who acquires cigarettes solely for the purpose of resale in vending machines, provided such person services fifty or more cigarette vending machines in Louisiana other than his own, and a Louisiana dealer who was affixing cigarette and tobacco stamps as of January 1, 1974. Wholesale dealer also shall include a bona fide tobacconist engaged in receiving bulk smoking tobacco for the purpose of blending such tobacco for retail sale at a particular retail outlet where fifty percent or more of the total purchases for the preceding twelve months were purchases of tobacco products, excluding cigarettes.

Acts 2007, No. 409, §1, eff. Aug. 31, 2009.

*Acts 2007, No. 409