North DakotaNorth Dakota cigar lounges report sales and meet room rules
Cigar lounges must meet room and ventilation rules, and operators report tobacco sales revenue to renew their tax commissioner certificates.
What it does
Cigar lounges need a state certificate, a humidor, and an enclosed room with ventilation that keeps smoke out of nonsmoking areas.
Certified lounges may allow customers to smoke cigars and pipe tobacco bought there. They may not allow smoking other products.
After a full calendar year of operation, a lounge must report its cigar and pipe tobacco sales revenue each year to renew its certificate.
Argument forCustomers could smoke cigars and pipe tobacco bought at a certified lounge, as long as the lounge meets the stated conditions.
Argument againstAnnual sales reports and supporting documents could add work for lounge operators seeking to keep their certificates.
More detail
A cigar lounge has a tax commissioner certificate and a humidor, an enclosed room, and ventilation that keeps smoke out of nonsmoking areas. These requirements apply to businesses operating as cigar lounges in North Dakota. The room must have solid walls or windows, a ceiling, and a solid door. Exhausted air cannot be sent back to nonsmoking areas, and smoke cannot flow into those areas.
A certified cigar lounge may allow customers to smoke cigars and pipe tobacco bought there, but no other products. This permission applies to a cigar lounge with a valid certificate from the tax commissioner.
A cigar lounge reports its cigar and pipe tobacco sales revenue to the tax commissioner to renew its certificate. This reporting rule applies after a lounge has operated for a full calendar year. The tax commissioner may not renew a certificate without supporting documents, but does not have to confirm the reported figures. The text refers to a 15 percent sales-income requirement, but its exact application is unclear because amendment formatting is missing. The report is due before February 1 each year after the lounge completes a full calendar year of operation.
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History
- 2025
- Apr 30Filed with Secretary Of State 04/28Latest
- Apr 29Signed by Governor Kelly Armstrong 04/28Became Law
- Apr 25Sent to GovernorTo Governor
- Apr 25Signed by Speaker
- Apr 22Signed by President
- Apr 21Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 39 nays 8Major
- Apr 21Conference committee report adopted
- Apr 18Reported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendarMinor
- Apr 16Second reading, passed, yeas 75 nays 17Major
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on HB 1440. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 16Conference committee report adopted
- Apr 15Reported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendarMinor
- Mar 28Conference committee appointed Powers Marcellais Rummel
- Mar 19Conference committee appointed Dockter Motschenbacher Dressler
- Mar 19Refused to concur
- Mar 11Returned to House (12)
- Mar 10Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 39 nays 6Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on HB 1440. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 7Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Mar 7Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 4 2 0Minor
- Feb 17Committee Hearing 02:30
- Feb 13Introduced, first reading, referred Finance and Taxation CommitteeMinor
- Jan 23Received from House
- Jan 22Second reading, passed, yeas 81 nays 13Passed House
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on HB 1440. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 21Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Jan 20Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 10 2 2Minor
- Jan 20Committee Hearing 11:00
- Jan 15Introduced, first reading, referred Finance and Taxation CommitteeIntroduced
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