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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61466</law_id><section_number>59.1-293.10</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-371.2</reference><reference>59.1-200</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="23.2">Retail Tobacco Products and Nicotine Vapor Products Containing Liquid Nicotine</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires another meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Child-resistant packaging</span>&#x201D; means packaging that is designed or constructed to meet the child-resistant effectiveness standards set forth in 16 C.F.R. &#xA7;&#xA0;1700.15(b)(1) when tested in accordance with the protocols described in 16 C.F.R. &#xA7;&#xA0;1700.20 as in effect on July 1, 2015.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Department</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Taxation.
		&#x201C;Liquid nicotine&#x201D; means the same as that term is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/58.1-1021.01/">58.1-1021.01</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Liquid nicotine container</span>&#x201D; means a bottle or other container holding liquid nicotine in any concentration but does not include a cartridge containing liquid nicotine if such cartridge is prefilled and <span class="dictionary">sealed</span> by the manufacturer of such cartridge and is not intended to be opened by the consumer.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Nicotine vapor product</span>&#x201D;means the same as that term is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/58.1-1021.01/">58.1-1021.01</a> and includes <span class="dictionary">liquid nicotine containers</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Retail dealer</span>&#x201D; means the same as that term is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/58.1-1021.01/">58.1-1021.01</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Retail tobacco product</span>&#x201D; means (i) any product containing, made of, or derived from tobacco or that contains nicotine that is intended for human consumption or is likely to be consumed, whether smoked, heated, chewed, dissolved, inhaled, absorbed, or ingested by other means, including a cigarette, a heated tobacco product, chewing tobacco, snuff, or snus; (ii) any electronic smoking device and any substances that may be aerosolized or vaporized by such device, whether or not the substance contains nicotine; and (iii) any component, part, or <span class="dictionary">accessory</span> of a product described in clause (i) or (ii), whether or not such component, part, or <span class="dictionary">accessory</span> contains tobacco or nicotine, including filters, rolling papers, blunt or hemp wraps, and glass pipes. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Retail tobacco product</span>&#x201D; includes any <span class="dictionary">nicotine vapor product</span>. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Retail tobacco product</span>&#x201D; does not include drugs or devices, as such terms are defined in 21 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;321, or combination products, as such term is used in 21 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;353, if such drugs, devices, or combination products are authorized for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Retail tobacco product</span>&#x201D; does not include any cigar or pipe tobacco as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/58.1-1021.01/">58.1-1021.01</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Tobacco retailer</span>&#x201D; means any person, partnership, joint venture, society, club, trustee, trust, association, organization, or corporation that owns, operates, or manages any <span class="dictionary">tobacco retail establishment</span>. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Tobacco retailer</span>&#x201D; does not include nonmanagement employees of a <span class="dictionary">tobacco retail establishment</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Tobacco retail establishment</span>&#x201D; means any place of business where <span class="dictionary">retail tobacco products</span> are available for sale to the general public, including any grocery store, <span class="dictionary">retail tobacco product</span> shop, kiosk, convenience store, gasoline service station, bar, or restaurant where <span class="dictionary">retail tobacco products</span> are available for sale to the general public.</p></section></text><history>2015, cc. 739, 756; 2024, cc. 793, 796, 821, 828.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
