69-502. Terms, defined.

For purposes of the Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Act:

(1) Agent means any person authorized by the Tax Commissioner to purchase and affix stamps or cigarette tax meter impressions on packages of cigarettes under sections 77-2601 to 77-2615;

(2) Cigarette has the same meaning as in section 77-2601;

(3) Consumer testing means an assessment of cigarettes that is conducted by a manufacturer, or under the control or direction of a manufacturer, for the purpose of evaluating consumer acceptance of the cigarettes;

(4) Manufacturer means:

(a) Any entity which manufactures or otherwise produces cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced anywhere that such manufacturer intends to sell 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; or

(c) Any entity that becomes a successor of an entity described in subdivision (4)(a) or (b) of this section;

(5) 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 stated in section 69-503 for all test trials used to certify cigarettes in accordance with the Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Act;

(6) 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;

(7) Retail dealer means any person, other than a manufacturer or wholesale dealer, engaged in selling cigarettes or tobacco products;

(8) Sale means any transfer for consideration, exchange, barter, gift, offer for sale, or distribution in any manner or by any means whatsoever;

(9) Sell means to sell or to offer or agree to do the same; and

(10) Wholesale dealer means any person, other than a manufacturer, who sells cigarettes or tobacco products to retail dealers or other persons for purposes of resale and any person who owns, operates, or maintains one or more cigarette or tobacco product vending machines in, at, or upon premises owned or occupied by any other person.

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