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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 27-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="27-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Cigar.">
      <para num="(1)">“Cigar” means any cigar, cheroot, stogie, cigarillo, or other roll of tobacco that is wrapped in leaf tobacco or in any other substance that contains tobacco.</para>
      <para num="(2)">“Cigar” does not include a cigarette.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Cigarette.">“Cigarette” has the meaning stated in § 12-101(b) of the State Tax-General Article.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Dealer.">
      <para num="(1)">“Dealer” means any person who engages in the retail sale of tobacco products subject to this subtitle.</para>
      <para num="(2)">“Dealer” includes:<para num="(i)">any distributor engaged in casual retail sales of tobacco products;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any operator of a vending machine from which tobacco products are sold; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">individual outlets in the City of multiple-outlet retail chain stores.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Director.">“Director” means the Director of Finance or a designee of the Director of Finance.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Distributor.">“Distributor” means:<para num="(1)">any person who supplies tobacco products to a dealer;</para>
      <para num="(2)">any person who supplies vending machines with tobacco products; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">any multiple-outlet retail chain store that supplies tobacco products to its individual outlets.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Pipe tobacco.">“Pipe tobacco” means any tobacco that, because of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling, is suitable or intended to be smoked in a pipe.</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Smokeless tobacco.">“Smokeless tobacco” means any chewing tobacco, spit tobacco, snuff, or other finely cut, ground, powdered, or leaf tobacco that is:<para num="(1)">intended to be placed in the oral cavity or nasal passage; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">otherwise not intended to be smoked.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Supply.">
      <para num="(1)">“Supply” means to provide, furnish, deliver, distribute, or transmit.</para>
      <para num="(2)">For purposes of this subtitle, the act of supplying tobacco products to a dealer operating in the City is completed, and tax liability accrues, on receipt of the products by the dealer in the City.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Tobacco product.">
      <para num="(1)">“Tobacco product” means any:<para num="(i)">cigar;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">pipe tobacco; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">smokeless tobacco.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">“Tobacco product” does not include a cigarette.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 28, §92</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-388</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-124</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
