First owner shall mean any person:

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 77-4004

  • First owner: shall mean any person:

    (1) Engaged in the business of selling tobacco products in this state who brings or causes to be brought into this state from outside this state any tobacco products for sale in this state, including a retailer who purchases directly from suppliers outside this state who are not licensed pursuant to subsection (2) of section 77-4009 . See Nebraska Statutes 77-4004

  • Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Tobacco products: shall mean (1) cigars, (2) cheroots, (3) stogies, (4) periques, (5) granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and other smoking tobacco, (6) snuff, (7) snuff flour, (8) cavendish, (9) plug and twist tobacco, (10) fine cut and other chewing tobacco, (11) shorts, refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings, and sweepings of tobacco, (12) other kinds and forms of tobacco, prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing or smoking in a pipe or otherwise or both for chewing and smoking, and (13) electronic nicotine delivery systems, except that tobacco products shall not mean cigarettes as defined in section 77-2601. See Nebraska Statutes 77-4007

(1) Engaged in the business of selling tobacco products in this state who brings or causes to be brought into this state from outside this state any tobacco products for sale in this state, including a retailer who purchases directly from suppliers outside this state who are not licensed pursuant to subsection (2) of section 77-4009 ;

(2) Who makes, manufactures, or fabricates tobacco products in this state for sale in this state; or

(3) Engaged in business outside this state who ships or transports tobacco products to retailers in this state and who becomes licensed pursuant to subsection (2) of section 77-4009.