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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="16.5-205" title_number="16.5" title_name="Other Tobacco Products Licenses" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Other Tobacco Products Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An other tobacco products manufacturer may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>sell other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a licensed other tobacco products wholesaler located in Maryland;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a licensed other tobacco products wholesaler located outside Maryland if the other tobacco products may be sold lawfully in Maryland; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a licensed tobacconist;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>sell premium cigars or pipe tobacco on which the tobacco tax has not been paid to a licensed other tobacco products retailer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>except as otherwise prohibited or restricted under local law, this article, or the Criminal Law Article, distribute sample other tobacco products to consumers located in Maryland;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>store other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid in a licensed other tobacco products storage warehouse for subsequent shipment to licensed other tobacco products wholesalers, federal reservations, or persons out of state; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>on approval of the Executive Director, act as an agent of a Maryland other tobacco products wholesaler for distribution of other tobacco products.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An other tobacco products retailer license authorizes the licensee to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>act as an other tobacco products retailer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>buy other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has been paid from an other tobacco products wholesaler; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>buy premium cigars or pipe tobacco on which the tobacco tax has not been paid from an other tobacco products manufacturer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An other tobacco products storage warehouse license authorizes the licensee to operate a storage facility in Maryland for the purpose of storing other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid on behalf of a licensed other tobacco products manufacturer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If an other tobacco products storage warehouse licensee is a licensed other tobacco products wholesaler, the other tobacco products storage warehouse license authorizes the holder to store other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has been paid and other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has been paid to another state.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An other tobacco products wholesaler license authorizes the licensee to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>act as an other tobacco products wholesaler;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>buy other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid directly from an other tobacco products manufacturer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>hold other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>transport other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid in the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>sell other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid to another licensed other tobacco products wholesaler if the Executive Director specifically authorizes; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>store other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid at a licensed other tobacco products storage warehouse.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A tobacconist license authorizes the licensee to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>act as a tobacconist; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>buy other tobacco products on which the tobacco tax has not been paid from an other tobacco products manufacturer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
