18-U.S.C.-2343
§2343 – Recordkeeping, Reporting, and Inspection
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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 114 > Section 2343
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- Reference: Section 2343
- Legend: §2343 – Recordkeeping, Reporting, and Inspection
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
(a) Any person who ships, sells, or distributes any quantity of cigarettes in excess of 10,000, or any quantity of smokeless tobacco in excess of 500 single-unit consumer-sized cans or packages, in a single transaction shall maintain such information about the shipment, receipt, sale, and distribution of cigarettes as the Attorney General may prescribe by rule or regulation. The Attorney General may require such person to keep such information as the Attorney General considers appropriate for purposes of enforcement of this chapter, including—
(1) the name, address, destination (including street address), vehicle license number, drivers license number, signature of the person receiving such cigarettes, and the name of the purchaser;
(2) a declaration of the specific purpose of the receipt (personal use, resale, or delivery to another); and
(3) a declaration of the name and address of the recipients principal in all cases when the recipient is acting as an agent.
Such information shall be contained on business records kept in the normal course of business.
(b) Any person, except for a tribal government, who engages in a delivery sale, and who ships, sells, or distributes any quantity in excess of 10,000 cigarettes, or any quantity in excess of 500 single-unit consumer-sized cans or packages of smokeless tobacco, or their equivalent, within a single month, shall submit to the Attorney General, pursuant to rules or regulations prescribed by the Attorney General, a report that sets forth the following:
(1) The persons beginning and ending inventory of cigarettes and cans or packages of smokeless tobacco (in total) for such month.
(2) The total quantity of cigarettes and cans or packages of smokeless tobacco that the person received within such month from each other person (itemized by name and address).
(3) The total quantity of cigarettes and cans or packages of smokeless tobacco that the person distributed within such month to each person (itemized by name and address) other than a retail purchaser.
(c)(1) Any officer of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives may, during normal business hours, enter the premises of any person described in subsection (a) or (b) for the purposes of inspecting—
(A) any records or information required to be maintained by the person under this chapter; or
(B) any cigarettes or smokeless tobacco kept or stored by the person at the premises.
(2) The district courts of the United States shall have the authority in a civil action under this subsection to compel inspections authorized by paragraph (1).
(3) Whoever denies access to an officer under paragraph (1), or who fails to comply with an order issued under paragraph (2), shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $10,000.
(d) Any report required to be submitted under this chapter to the Attorney General shall also be submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the attorneys general and the tax administrators of the States from where the shipments, deliveries, or distributions both originated and concluded.
(e) In this section, the term delivery sale means any sale of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco in interstate commerce to a consumer if—
(1) the consumer submits the order for such sale by means of a telephone or other method of voice transmission, the mails, or the Internet or other online service, or by any other means where the consumer is not in the same physical location as the seller when the purchase or offer of sale is made; or
(2) the cigarettes or smokeless tobacco are delivered by use of the mails, common carrier, private delivery service, or any other means where the consumer is not in the same physical location as the seller when the consumer obtains physical possession of the cigarettes or smokeless tobacco.
(f) In this section, the term interstate commerce means commerce between a State and any place outside the State, or commerce between points in the same State but through any place outside the State.
(Added Pub. L. 95–575, §1, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2464; amended Pub. L. 107–296, title XI, §1112(i)(2), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2277; Pub. L. 109–177, title I, §121(a)(3), (b)(3), (c), (g)(1), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 221, 222, 224; Pub. L. 111–154, §4, Mar. 31, 2010, 124 Stat. 1109.)
Amendments
2010—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 111–154 amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (c) read as follows: Upon the consent of any person who ships, sells, or distributes any quantity of cigarettes in excess of 10,000 in a single transaction, or pursuant to a duly issued search warrant, the Attorney General may enter the premises (including places of storage) of such person for the purpose of inspecting any records or information required to be maintained by such person under this chapter, and any cigarettes kept or stored by such person at such premises.
2006—Pub. L. 109–177, §121(g)(1), substituted Recordkeeping, reporting, and inspection for Recordkeeping and inspection in section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–177, §121(a)(3)(A), (b)(3), (c)(1), in introductory provisions, substituted 10,000, or any quantity of smokeless tobacco in excess of 500 single-unit consumer-sized cans or packages, for 60,000 and such information as the Attorney General considers appropriate for purposes of enforcement of this chapter, including— for only— and, in concluding provisions, struck out Nothing contained herein shall authorize the Attorney General to require reporting under this section. at end.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–177, §121(c)(3), added subsec. (b). Former subsec. (b) redesignated (c).
Pub. L. 109–177, §121(a)(3)(B), substituted 10,000 for 60,000.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–177, §121(c)(2), redesignated subsec. (b) as (c).
Subsecs. (d) to (f). Pub. L. 109–177, §121(c)(4), added subsecs. (d) to (f).
2002—Pub. L. 107–296 substituted Attorney General for Secretary wherever appearing.
Effective Date of 2002 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 107–296 effective 60 days after Nov. 25, 2002, see section 4 of Pub. L. 107–296, set out as an Effective Date note under section 101 of Title 6, Domestic Security.
Effective Date
Section effective on first day of first month beginning more than 120 days after Nov. 2, 1978, see section 4 of Pub. L. 95–575, set out as a note under section 2341 of this title.
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