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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72178</law_id><section_number>58.1-1006</section_number><catch_line>Forms and kinds of containers, methods of breaking packages, and methods of affixing stamps; penalty for interfering with enforcement of article</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Taxes Administered by the Department of Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10">Cigarette Tax</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Excise Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall provide by rules and regulations forms and kinds of containers, the methods of breaking packages and methods of affixing <span class="dictionary">stamps</span> that shall be employed by persons subject to the <span class="dictionary">cigarette</span> tax, thereby making possible the enforcement of payment of the <span class="dictionary">cigarette</span> tax by inspection. Any person subject to this tax engaging in or permitting such practices as are prohibited by rules and regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or any person who upon demand of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or any of its officers or agents refuses to allow full inspection of the premises or any part thereof, or in any way interferes with any agent of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> in the performance of his duties in enforcing this chapter, shall be guilty of a Class 2 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. Further, a <span class="dictionary">stamping agent</span> shall have such agent&#x2019;s stamping permit suspended and be subject to a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of $1,000 for each day the <span class="dictionary">stamping agent</span> engages in or permits practices that are prohibited by rules and regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or refuses to allow full inspection of the premises or any part thereof, or in any way interferes with any agent of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> in the performance of his duties in enforcing this chapter. Such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> shall be assessed and collected by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> as other taxes are collected.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-757.5; 1960, c. 392, &#xA7; 5; 1984, c. 675; 2005, c. 28.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
