"AGO" means the Office of the Illinois Attorney General.
"Brand family" has the same meaning ascribed in Section 10 of the Escrow Enforcement Act.
"Cigarette" has the same meaning ascribed in Section 10 of the Escrow Act, which includes roll-your-own tobacco.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Revenue.
"Director" means Director of Revenue.
"Distributor" has the same meaning ascribed in Section 1 of the Cigarette Tax Act [ 35 ILCS 130 ] and Section 1 of the Cigarette Use Tax Act [ 35 ILCS 135 ]. Additionally, "distributor" means a distributor, as defined by Section 10-5 of the Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995 [ 35 ILCS 143 ], of roll-your-own tobacco.
"Escrow Act" means the Tobacco Product Manufacturers' Escrow Act [ 30 ILCS 168 ].
"Escrow Enforcement Act" means the Tobacco Products Manufacturers' Escrow Enforcement Act of 2003 [ 30 ILCS 167 ].
"Filed" means received by the AGO in readable form, however transmitted, or postmarked for delivery by the U.S. mail.
"Liability year" means the calendar year in which a tobacco product manufacturer's cigarettes are sold in Illinois, and to which the requirements of the Escrow Act apply.
"Master Settlement Agreement" or "MSA" has the meaning ascribed in Section 10 of the Escrow Act.
"NPM" means a tobacco product manufacturer that is not a participating manufacturer.
"Participating manufacturer" has the same meaning ascribed in Section 15(a)(1) of the Escrow Act.
"Qualified Escrow Fund" has the same meaning ascribed in Section 10 of the Escrow Act.
"Roll-Your-Own" or "RYO" has the same meaning set out in Section 10 of the Escrow Act (definition of "cigarette").
"Stamps or imprints" means revenue tax stamps or imprints as provided for in Section 3 of the Cigarette Tax Act or stamps or imprints evidencing the payment of cigarette use tax as provided for in Section 3 of the Cigarette Use Tax Act, as appropriate.
"Tobacco product manufacturer" or "TPM" has the same meaning ascribed in Section 10 of the Escrow Act.
"Units sold" has the same meaning ascribed in Section 10 of the Escrow Act and includes "roll-your-own" tobacco for which tobacco products tax is owed and does not bear an excise tax stamp of the State.
Ill. Admin. Code tit. 14, § 250.20
Amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 12718, effective August 24, 2007