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§2345 Effect on State and local law

Title 18 › Part PART I— - CRIMES › Chapter CHAPTER 114— - TRAFFICKING IN CONTRABAND CIGARETTES AND SMOKELESS TOBACCO › § 2345

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

State and local governments have authority to make and enforce their own cigarette tax laws, seize illegal cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and related property, set penalties, and cooperate across states to run and enforce those laws.

Full Legal Text

Title 18, §2345

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(a)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect the concurrent jurisdiction of a State or local government to enact and enforce its own cigarette tax laws, to provide for the confiscation of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and other property seized for violation of such laws, and to provide for penalties for the violation of such laws.
(b)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to inhibit or otherwise affect any coordinated law enforcement effort by a number of State or local governments, through interstate compact or otherwise, to provide for the administration of State or local cigarette tax laws, to provide for the confiscation of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and other property seized in violation of such laws, and to establish cooperative programs for the administration of such laws.

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2006—Pub. L. 109–177, § 121(g)(2), substituted “Effect on State and local law” for “Effect on State law” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–177, § 121(b)(5), (e)(1), substituted “a State or local government to enact and enforce its own” for “a State to enact and enforce” and inserted “or smokeless tobacco” after “cigarettes”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–177, § 121(b)(5), (e)(2), substituted “of State or local governments, through interstate compact or otherwise, to provide for the administration of State or local” for “of States, through interstate compact or otherwise, to provide for the administration of State” and inserted “or smokeless tobacco” after “cigarettes”.

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18 U.S.C. § 2345

Title 18Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73