16-10-205. Purchases outside ordinary trade channels, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 16. ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO

CHAPTER 10. REGULATION OF CIGARETTE MARKETING

Part 2. Sales Price of Cigarettes

Purchases Outside Ordinary Trade Channels

16-10-205. Purchases outside ordinary trade channels. In establishing the cost of cigarettes to the retailer or wholesaler, the invoice cost of said cigarettes purchased at a forced, bankrupt, or closeout sale or other sale outside of the ordinary channels of trade may not be used as a basis for justifying a price lower than one based upon the replacement cost of the cigarettes to the retailer or wholesaler in the quantity last purchased through the ordinary channels of trade.

History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 258, L. 1965; R.C.M. 1947, 51-311.