1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each licensed wholesale dealer of cigarettes and licensed wholesale dealer of other tobacco products shall furnish a bond executed by the wholesale dealer as principal, and by a corporation qualified under the laws of this State as surety, payable to the State of Nevada and conditioned upon the payment of all excise taxes required to be precollected by the wholesale dealer under the provisions of this chapter. Each bond must be in a principal sum equal to:

(a) For a wholesale dealer of cigarettes, the largest amount of tax precollected by the wholesale dealer in any quarter of the preceding year; or

(b) For a wholesale dealer of other tobacco products, the largest amount of tax paid by the wholesale dealer in any quarter of the preceding year.

If the information to establish that amount is not available, then in a sum required from a licensee operating under conditions deemed comparable by the Department. No bond may be for less than $1,000. When cash is used, the amount must be rounded up to the next larger integral multiple of $100.

2. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each licensed wholesale dealer of cigarettes who wishes to defer payment on the purchase of revenue stamps shall furnish a bond executed by the wholesale dealer of cigarettes as principal, and by a corporation qualified under the laws of this State as surety, payable to the State of Nevada and conditioned upon the payment of all deferred payments for revenue stamps. Each bond must be in a principal sum equal to the maximum amount of revenue stamps which the wholesale dealer of cigarettes may have unpaid at any time. No bond may be for less than $1,000. When cash is used, the amount must be rounded up to the next larger integral multiple of $100.

3. Upon application and a satisfactory showing, the Department may increase or decrease the amount of a bond required by subsection 1 or 2, based on the record of taxes remitted by the wholesale dealer of cigarettes or wholesale dealer of other tobacco products.

4. The Department may waive the requirement of the bond required by subsection 1 or 2, whenever a licensed wholesale dealer of cigarettes or wholesale dealer of other tobacco products has maintained a satisfactory record of payment of excise taxes or deferred payments, respectively, for a period of 5 consecutive years.

5. A wholesale dealer of cigarettes and a wholesale dealer of other tobacco products are not entitled to a refund of any portion of money paid as a bond pursuant to this section if the wholesale dealer of cigarettes or wholesale dealer of other tobacco products has failed to file a report required by this chapter or owes the Department any fee, payment or penalty.

(Added to NRS by 2019, 618)