79-3393. Cigarette or tobacco infraction; procedure. (a) When a person is stopped by a law enforcement officer for a cigarette or tobacco infraction, the law enforcement officer shall prepare and deliver to the person a written cigarette or tobacco citation on a form approved by the secretary of revenue or the secretary's designee. The citation shall contain a notice to appear in court, the name and address of the person, the offense or offenses charged, the time and place when and where the person shall appear in court, the signature of the law enforcement officer and any other pertinent information. The time specified in the notice to appear shall be at least five days after the alleged infraction unless the person charged with the infraction demands an earlier hearing. The place specified in the notice to appear shall be before a judge of the district court within the county where the infraction is alleged to have been committed or before a judge of the municipal court where the infraction is alleged to have been committed in a city which has adopted an ordinance which prohibits the same acts.
(b) The notice to appear may provide that the person charged with the infraction shall appear in court with a parent or legal guardian and shall provide that the person charged has a right to trial.
(c) Acts classified as cigarette or tobacco infractions by K.S.A. 79-3322(d), and amendments thereto, shall be classified as ordinance cigarette or tobacco infractions by those cities adopting ordinances prohibiting the same acts. The fine for an ordinance cigarette or tobacco infraction shall be $25.
History: L. 1996, ch. 214, § 9; L. 1998, ch. 192, § 13; L. 2017, ch. 96, § 22; June 22.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Article 33 - Cigarettes And Tobacco Products
79-3302 Title and purpose of act.
79-3303 Licenses and permits; requirements relating to vending machines.
79-3304 License and permit fees and bond; qualifications for license.
79-3306 License; application forms; issuance.
79-3309 Suspension or revocation of license.
79-3310 Tax on cigarettes imposed; rates.
79-3310c Inventory tax on cigarettes; procedures for payment.
79-3311a Stamps; minimum number of cigarettes; liability for tax.
79-3316 Certain records required of dealer; restrictions on purchase by dealer; tax exemption forms.
79-3323 Contraband goods; seizure.
79-3324a Contraband goods; seizure and sale; disposition of proceeds.
79-3326 Duties of director; enforcement of act.
79-3328 Expenses of enforcement.
79-3329 Unconstitutionality of part.
79-3334 Active cigarette and tobacco licensees, list.
79-3335 Counterfeit cigarettes; seizure; penalties.
79-3336 Conviction for violation; defined.
79-3371 Tax on privilege of selling tobacco products.
79-3373 Distributor's license.
79-3374 License fees; surety bond; application for each place of business.
79-3375 Issuance, expiration and display of licenses; license not transferable.
79-3377 Certain records required of distributor; access to premises.
79-3378 Monthly tax returns; remittance of tax; deficiencies.
79-3379 Refunds and credits of tax.
79-3387 Disposition of revenues.
79-3388 Tobacco products not exempt from sales tax.
79-3391 Administrative fines; cigarette and tobacco products regulation fund created.
79-3392 Application of certain laws to taxes under act.
79-3393 Cigarette or tobacco infraction; procedure.
79-3394 Use of minors to determine compliance, limitations.
79-3396 Failure to file; penalty.
79-3397 Enforcement of act; civil liability for violation of act.
79-3398 Exceptions to applicability of act.
79-3399 Tax on electronic cigarettes imposed; rates; inventory tax.