75-23-37 - Revocation and suspension of licenses and permits to sell tobacco; seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of contraband cigarettes.
§ 75-23-37. Revocation and suspension of licenses and permits to sell tobacco; seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of contraband cigarettes.
(1) Upon finding a violation of this article or a regulation promulgated pursuant to this article, the commission may revoke or suspend the license or licenses of any permittee pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 27-69-9 and may also impose on the permittee a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed the greater of five hundred percent (500%) of the retail value of the cigarettes involved or Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).
(2) Cigarettes that are acquired, held, owned, possessed, transported in, imported into, or sold or distributed in this state in violation of this article shall be deemed contraband under Sections 27-69-53 through 27-69-57 and shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture as provided therein. Such cigarettes so seized and forfeited shall be destroyed. Such cigarettes shall be deemed contraband whether the violation of this article is knowing or otherwise.
Sources: Laws, 2000, ch. 596, § 4, eff from and after passage (approved May 20, 2000.)