Section 14950 Of Part 8. Cigarettes From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 12. >> Part 8.
14950
. (a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the
California Cigarette Fire Safety and Firefighter Protection Act.
(b) As used in this part, the following terms have the following
meanings:
(1) "Board" means the State Board of Equalization.
(2) "Cigarette" means a cigarette as defined in Section 30003 of
the Revenue and Taxation Code, but does not include a little cigar.
"Little cigar" means any roll of tobacco wrapped in a leaf of tobacco
or any substance containing tobacco and weighing not more than three
pounds per thousand.
(3) "Distributor" means a distributor as defined in Section 30011
of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(4) "Manufacturer" means any of the following:
(A) An entity that manufactures or otherwise produces cigarettes
or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced anywhere that the
manufacturer intends to be sold in the state, including cigarettes
intended to be sold in the United States through an importer.
(B) The first purchaser anywhere that intends to resell in the
United States cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the original
manufacturer or maker does not intend to be sold in the United
States.
(C) An entity that becomes a successor of an entity described in
subparagraph (A) or (B).
(5) "Offer to sell" means to offer or agree to sell.
(6) "Package" means package as defined in Section 30015 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code.
(7) "Quality control and quality assurance program" means the
laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias,
systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and
equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing.
This program ensures that the testing repeatability remains within
the required repeatability values stated in paragraph (5) of
subdivision (a) of Section 14952 for all test trials used to certify
cigarettes in accordance with this part.
(8) "Repeatability" means the range of values within which the
repeat results of cigarette test trials from a single laboratory will
fall 95 percent of the time.
(9) "Retailer" means a person who engages in the sale of
cigarettes, but not for the purpose of resale.
(10) "Sale" or "sell" means any transfer, exchange, or barter, in
any manner or by any means whatever, or any agreement for these
purposes. The giving of cigarettes as samples, prizes, or gifts, and
the exchanging of cigarettes for any consideration other than money
are considered sales.
(11) "Stamp and meter impression" means stamp and meter impression
as defined in Section 30018 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(12) "Wholesaler" means a wholesaler as defined in Section 30016
of the Revenue and Taxation Code.