Terms Used In Florida Statutes 210.07

  • Cigarette: means any roll for smoking, except one of which the tobacco is fully naturally fermented, without regard to the kind of tobacco or other substances used in the inner roll or the nature or composition of the material in which the roll is wrapped, which is made wholly or in part of tobacco irrespective of size or shape and whether such tobacco is flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingredient. See Florida Statutes 210.01
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Dealer: means any wholesale dealer as hereinafter defined. See Florida Statutes 210.01
  • Division: means the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 210.01
  • Package: means the individual package, box or other container in or from which retail sales of cigarettes are normally made or intended to be made. See Florida Statutes 210.01
  • person: includes individuals, children, firms, associations, joint adventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations. See Florida Statutes 1.01
  • stamps: means the indicia required to be placed on cigarette packages which evidence payment of the surcharge on cigarettes under…. See Florida Statutes 210.01

(1) Retail dealers of cigarettes owning, leasing, furnishing, or operating cigarette vending machines shall affix to each such machine, in a conspicuous place, an identification sticker furnished by the division. Every sticker shall show the vending machine serial number and the name and address of the cigarette retail dealer owning, leasing, furnishing, or operating the vending machine.
(2) A person may not operate a vending machine in the state unless the identification sticker required by this section is affixed to the vending machine. A person may not operate a vending machine in the state which does not display at all times at least one package of each brand of the packages located therein so the same are clearly visible and arranged in such a manner that the cigarette tax stamps affixed thereto are clearly visible. A person, firm, or corporation operating a cigarette vending machine in this state must furnish to the division the location of the vending machine and report within 30 days to the division any change of location of the vending machine.