18-U.S.C.-2345

§2345 – Effect On State and Local Law

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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 114 > Section 2345

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• Reference: Section 2345
• Legend: §2345 – Effect On State and Local Law
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect the concurrent jurisdiction of a State or local government to enact and enforce its own cigarette tax laws, to provide for the confiscation of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and other property seized for violation of such laws, and to provide for penalties for the violation of such laws.

(b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to inhibit or otherwise affect any coordinated law enforcement effort by a number of State or local governments, through interstate compact or otherwise, to provide for the administration of State or local cigarette tax laws, to provide for the confiscation of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and other property seized in violation of such laws, and to establish cooperative programs for the administration of such laws.

(Added Pub. L. 95–575, §1, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2465; amended Pub. L. 109–177, title I, §121(b)(5), (e), (g)(2), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 222–224.)

Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–177, §121(g)(2), substituted Effect on State and local law for Effect on State law in section catchline.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–177, §121(b)(5), (e)(1), substituted a State or local government to enact and enforce its own for a State to enact and enforce and inserted or smokeless tobacco after cigarettes.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–177, §121(b)(5), (e)(2), substituted of State or local governments, through interstate compact or otherwise, to provide for the administration of State or local for of States, through interstate compact or otherwise, to provide for the administration of State and inserted or smokeless tobacco after cigarettes.

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