PUBLIC LAWS
First Regular Session of the 122nd

PART TT

     Sec. TT-1. 22 MRSA §1552, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2003, c. 673, Pt. CC, §1, is further amended to read:

     1. Application process; license fees. An applicant for an annual retail tobacco license shall file an application in the form required by the department. The department shall make provisions for applications under this section. The fee for a retail tobacco license is $50 annually must be determined annually by the department by rulemaking. The applicant shall enclose the fee with the application for the license. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

     Sec. TT-2. Tobacco fee calculation and revenue requirements. Beginning July 1, 2005, the Department of Health and Human Services shall implement a sliding-scale license fee based on the relative size of retail tobacco licensees. In determining the sliding-scale license fee, the department may rely on a number of measures of the relative size of the licensee, including, but not limited to: total sales, total cigarette sales, total square footage of the retail establishment and the relative size of the retailer's cigarette display. The sliding-scale license fees assessed under this Part must generate total revenues per year no less than the revenues that would be generated by a $100 flat annual fee applied to all retail tobacco licensees.

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