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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="16-608" title_number="16" title_name="Cigarettes" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Fire Safety Performance Standard for Cigarettes">
  <text>** CONTINGENCY – IN EFFECT – CHAPTER 497 OF 2007 **</text>
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A manufacturer or other person that knowingly sells or offers for sale cigarettes other than by retail sale in violation of § 16–602 of this subtitle is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $100 for each package of cigarettes sold or offered for sale.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Under this subsection, a total amount of civil penalties imposed on a manufacturer or other person may not exceed $100,000 during any 30–day period.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, a retailer, subwholesaler, wholesaler, or other person that knowingly sells cigarettes in violation of § 16–602 of this subtitle is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $100 for each package of cigarettes sold.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Under this subsection, a total amount of civil penalties imposed on a retailer may not exceed $25,000 during any 30–day period.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Under this subsection, a total amount of civil penalties imposed on a subwholesaler, wholesaler, or other person may not exceed $100,000 during any  30–day period.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A manufacturer that knowingly makes a false certification under § 16–603 of this subtitle is subject to a civil penalty of at least $75,000 and not exceeding $250,000 for each false certification.</text>
  </level>
</section>
