ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 455

CHAPTER 455
(House Bill 889)

AN ACT concerning

Tobacco Product Manufacturers - Nonparticipating Manufacturers -

Escrow Requirements

FOR the purpose of requiring tobacco product manufacturers whose cigarettes are
sold in the State to periodically submit certain certifications, reports, and
notices to the Comptroller and to the Attorney General; requiring the
Comptroller Attorney General to maintain a directory of cigarettes approved for
stamping and sale; prohibiting the stamping or selling or importing of cigarettes
not in the directory for sale in the State; requiring manufacturers to appoint an
agent for the service of process; requiring reporting of information by licensed
wholesalers; prescribing establishing certain penalties, remedies, and
enforcement procedures; authorizing the Comptroller Attorney General to adopt
regulations requiring certain escrow payments; requiring the Governor to make
a certain appropriation from the Cigarette Restitution Fund each year under
certain circumstances; providing for construction of this Act; providing that a
certain act controls one of the provisions of this Act under certain circumstances;
making the provisions of this Act severable; requiring a certain report to be filed
by a certain date; requiring a certain certification to be filed by a certain date;
requiring a certain directory to be made available by a certain date; defining
certain terms; providing for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating
to tobacco product manufacturers, the sale of tobacco products, and the
enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 169 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1999, as amended by Chapter 141 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 2001.

BY adding to

Article - Business Regulation

Section 16-501 through 16-508 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 5. Escrow
Requirements for Nonparticipating Tobacco Product Manufacturers"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1998 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Finance and Procurement
Section 7-317(g)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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