Section 45-38-243 Levy of tax. (a) There is hereby imposed upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or certain tobacco products in Lamar County a county privilege, license, or excise tax up to the following amounts: (1) Five cents ($.05) for each package of cigarettes, made of […]
Section 45-38-243.01 Tax to be added to sales price of tobacco products. Upon September 1, 1989, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for the purpose of distribution in Lamar County any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products shall add the amount of the license or […]
Section 45-38-243.02 Enforcement; tobacco stamps; reporting. It shall be the duty of the County Commission of Lamar County to enforce this part, and it shall have the right itself, or its members or its agents, to examine the books, reports, and accounts of every dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in the business for which the […]
Section 45-38-243.03 Collection of taxes; rules and regulations. The State Department of Revenue, if requested by resolution of the Lamar County Commission, to collect all county privilege licenses or taxes specified in Section 45-38-243, for as long as the department is requested to collect the levies, is hereby authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and […]
Section 45-38-243.04 Application of laws, rules, and regulations. All laws, and rules and regulations of the Department of Revenue, relating the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Section 40-25-1 to Section 40-25-28, inclusive, requiring reports from dealers and prescribing penalties for violations shall apply with equal force to the tax levied […]
Section 45-38-243.05 Disposition of funds. (a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less the actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall be paid by the State Department of Revenue to the Lamar County Commission to be deposited in two separate accounts to the credit of either the Lamar County Water […]
Section 45-38-243.06 Construction and application. (a) None of the provisions of this part shall be applied in such manner as to be in violation of the commerce or other clauses of the federal or state constitution. (b) This part shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products […]
