(a)

Attorney's Note

Under the Tennessee Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
class A misdemeanorup to 11 monthsup to $2,500
For details, see Tenn. Code § 40-35-111

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-4-1011

  • Cigarette: includes any cigarette produced by a cigarette rolling machine at a retail establishment. See Tennessee Code 67-4-1001
  • Cigarette rolling machine: means a machine at a retail establishment that enables any person to process at that establishment tobacco or any product that is made or derived from tobacco into a roll or tube. See Tennessee Code 67-4-1001
  • cigarettes: means and includes all rolled, shredded, or cut tobacco, or any substitute therefor, wrapped in paper, or substitute therefor, and all rolled, shredded or cut tobacco, or any substitute therefor, wrapped in homogenized tobacco wrapper, and being within customary cigarette sizes and marketed in cigarette type packages. See Tennessee Code 67-4-1001
  • cigars: includes any roll of tobacco, for smoking, irrespective of the tobacco being flavored or adulterated, or mixed with other ingredients, where such a roll has a wrapper made chiefly of tobacco, except "cigar" or "cigars" does not include rolls of tobacco for smoking defined in this section as "cigarettes". See Tennessee Code 67-4-1001
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of revenue. See Tennessee Code 67-4-1001
  • Department: means the department of revenue. See Tennessee Code 67-4-1001
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Person: means and includes every individual, firm, association, joint-stock company, syndicate and corporation. See Tennessee Code 67-4-1001
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Sales: means all gross receipts of the taxpayer not allocated under this part. See Tennessee Code 67-4-2004
  • State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States and any foreign country or political subdivision thereof. See Tennessee Code 67-4-2004
(1) The commissioner is authorized and empowered to prescribe the methods to be used by dealers and distributors in recording purchases and sales of tobacco products and purchases and consumption of tobacco tax stamps.
(2) The commissioner is further authorized and empowered to require persons selling, distributing, or dealing in tobacco products to file such reports with the department in the manner and at such times as the commissioner may deem necessary in carrying out this part.
(b) In any case where a person cannot produce evidence of sufficient stamps purchased or other payment of the tax imposed to cover all of any tobacco products received, it may be assumed that such products were disposed of without having either the proper stamps affixed or the tax paid on the tobacco products.
(c)

(1) Every common carrier transporting cigars, cigarettes, manufactured tobacco or snuff in this state shall keep a complete record of all tobacco products handled in each transaction, separately, and shall show the transportation of such tobacco products, both interstate and intrastate.
(2) Every common carrier in this state shall give and permit the commissioner free access to such books and records, and furnish such information and reports as the commissioner may require.
(3) Any person violating this subsection (c) commits a Class A misdemeanor.
(d) A cigarette rolling machine operator must keep records both of tobacco sold for use in the operator’s cigarette rolling machine and of any cigarettes made from such tobacco through use of the cigarette rolling machine.
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