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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2025
Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law
Revenue and Taxation Code
Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 13. Cigarette Tax
Chapter 3. Licenses, Bonds and Registration
Article 1. Licenses and Bonds
Section 30140
30140. Distributor's license. Every person desiring to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products as a distributor (including a common carrier or authorized person mentioned in Section 30104), except a person who desires merely to sell or accept orders for cigarettes or tobacco products which are to be transported from a point outside this state to a consumer within this state, shall file with the board an application, in such form as the board may prescribe, for a distributor's license. A distributor shall apply for and obtain a license for each place of business at which he engages in the business of distributing cigarettes or tobacco products.
History—Stats. 1967, p. 2519, operative August 1, 1967, added "(including a common carrier or authorized person mentioned in Section 30104)" to the first sentence. Stats. 1989, Ch. 634, in effect September 21, 1989, added "or tobacco products" after "cigarettes" throughout text.