Bill Text: CT SB00910 | 2011 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Prohibiting The Manufacture, Sale And Distribution Of Blunt Wraps.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Public Hearing 02/24 [SB00910 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-SB00910-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 910
January Session, 2011		LCO No. 2861
		*02861_______GL_*
Referred to Committee on General Law
Introduced by:
(GL)

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE MANUFACTURE, SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF BLUNT WRAPS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 12-330a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2012):

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Revenue Services;

(2) "Tobacco products" means cigars, cheroots, stogies, periques, granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed and other smoking tobacco, snuff tobacco products, cavendish, plug and twist tobacco, fine cut and other chewing tobaccos, shorts, refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco and all other kinds and forms of tobacco, prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing or smoking in a pipe or otherwise or for both chewing and smoking, but shall not include any cigarette, as defined in section 12-285;

(3) "Distributor" means (A) any person in this state engaged in the business of manufacturing tobacco products, (B) any person who purchases untaxed tobacco products at wholesale from manufacturers or other distributors for sale, or (C) any person who imports into this state untaxed tobacco products, at least seventy-five per cent of which are to be sold;

(4) "Unclassified importer" means any person, other than a distributor, who imports, receives or acquires untaxed tobacco products from outside this state for his or her personal use or consumption in this state;

(5) "Sale" or "sell" includes or applies to gifts, exchanges and barter;

(6) "Wholesale sales price" means, in the case of a manufacturer of tobacco products, the price set for such products or, if no price has been set, the wholesale value of such products, and, in the case of a distributor who is not a manufacturer of tobacco products, the price at which the distributor purchased such products, and, in the case of an unclassified importer of tobacco products, the price at which the unclassified importer purchased such products;

(7) "Snuff tobacco products" means only those snuff tobacco products that have imprinted on the packages the designation "snuff" or "snuff flour", or the federal tax designation "Tax Class M", or both;

(8) "Untaxed tobacco products" means tobacco products upon which no tax has been paid in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; [and]

(9) "Taxed tobacco products" means tobacco products upon which tax has been paid in accordance with the provisions of this chapter;

(10) "Blunt wrap" means an individual tobacco wrapper, also known as a wrap or roll-your-own cigar wrap, that is made wholly or in part from tobacco, including, but not limited to, reconstituted tobacco, whether in the form of tobacco leaf, sheet or tube, if such wrap is designed and marketed for retail sale; and

(11) "Dealer" means any person in this state, other than a distributor, engaged in the business of selling cigarettes and any person in this state engaged in the business of selling taxed tobacco products at retail.

Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective January 1, 2012) (a) No person shall manufacture, sell or distribute a blunt wrap in this state.

(b) Any person, other than a distributor, who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars for the first offense and not more than five hundred dollars for a second or subsequent offense.

(c) A distributor who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars for the first offense, not more than five thousand dollars for a second offense and not more than ten thousand dollars for a third or subsequent offense.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	January 1, 2012	12-330a
Sec. 2	January 1, 2012	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To ban the manufacturing, sale and distribution of blunt wraps.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]