§ 4-28h — Regulation of certain cigarette manufacturers under tobacco settlement agreements: Definitions.

As used in sections 4-28h to 4-28j, inclusive: (1) “Adjusted for inflation” means increased in accordance with the formula for inflation adjustment set forth in Exhibit C to the Master Settlement Agreement; (2) “Affiliate” means a person who directly or indirectly owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, another person. The terms “owns”, “is owned” and “ownership” mean ownership of an equity interest, or the equivalent thereof, of ten per cent or more. The term “person” means an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation or any other organization or group of persons; (3) “Allocable share” means allocable share as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement; (4) “Cigarette” means any product that contains nicotine, is intended to be burned or heated under ordinary conditions of use, and consists of or contains (A) any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or in any substance not containing tobacco; or (B) tobacco, in any form, that is functional in the product, which, because of its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a cigarette; and (C) any roll of tobacco wrapped in any substance containing tobacco which, because of its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a cigarette described in subparagraph (A) of this subdivision. The term “cigarette” includes roll-your-own tobacco, meaning any tobacco which, because of its appearance, type, packaging or labeling is suitable for use and likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as tobacco for making cigarettes. For purposes of this definition of “cigarette”, 0.09 ounces of roll-your-own tobacco shall constitute one individual “cigarette”; (5) “Importer” means any person in the United States to whom cigarettes manufactured in a foreign country are shipped or consigned, any person who removes cigarettes for sale or consumption in the United States from a customs bonded manufacturing warehouse, or any person who unlawfully brings cigarettes into the United States; (6) “Master Settlement Agreement” means the settlement agreement executed November 23, 1998, by the state of Connecticut and leading tobacco product manufacturers, entitled “State of Connecticut v. Philip Morris, et al.”; (7) “Nonparticipating Manufacturer Adjustment Settlement Agreement” means the settlement agreement between the state of Connecticut and the participating manufacturers, as preliminarily set forth in the term sheet executed by the state of Connecticut and the participating manufacturers on May 24, 2013; (8) “Qualified escrow fund” means an escrow arrangement with a federally or state-chartered financial institution having no affiliation with any tobacco product manufacturer and having assets of at least one billion dollars where such arrangement requires that such financial institution hold the escrowed funds' principal for the benefit of releasing parties and prohibits the tobacco product manufacturer placing the funds into escrow from using, accessing or directing the use of the funds' principal except as consistent with the provisions of subsection (b) of section 4-28i ; (9) “Released claims” means released claims as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement; (10) “Releasing parties” means releasing parties as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement; (11) “Tobacco product manufacturer” means an entity, or its successor, that, after July 1, 2000, directly and not exclusively through an affiliate (A) manufactures cigarettes anywhere which the manufacturer intends to be sold in the United States, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer, provided that an entity that manufactures cigarettes that it intends to be sold in the United States shall not be considered to be a tobacco product manufacturer under this subparagraph (A) if (i) such cigarettes are sold in the United States exclusively through an importer that is an original participating manufacturer, as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement, that will be responsible for payments under the Master Settlement Agreement with respect to such cigarettes as a result of the provisions of subsection II(mm) of the Master Settlement Agreement and that pays the taxes specified in subsection II(z) of the Master Settlement Agreement, and (ii) the manufacturer of such cigarettes does not market or advertise such cigarettes in the United States; or (B) is the first purchaser anywhere for resale in the United States of cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the manufacturer does not intend to be sold in the United States. A tobacco product manufacturer shall not include an affiliate of a tobacco product manufacturer unless such affiliate itself meets the criteria specified in subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision; (12) “Units sold” means the number of individual cigarettes sold in this state by the applicable tobacco product manufacturer, whether directly or through a distributor, dealer or similar intermediary or intermediaries during the year in question, in packs required to bear a stamp pursuant to chapter 214 or, in the case of roll-your-own tobacco, on which a tax is due pursuant to chapter 214a. “Units sold” shall not include cigarettes sold on federal military installations, sold by a Native American tribe to a member of such tribe on such tribe's land, or that are otherwise exempt from state excise tax pursuant to federal law. The Department of Revenue Services shall adopt such regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, as are necessary to ascertain the amount of state excise tax paid or required to be paid on the cigarettes of such tobacco product manufacturer for each year.

Legislative History

(P.A. 00-208, S. 1, 4; P.A. 01-2, S. 3, 4; P.A. 14-155, S. 3.) History: P.A. 00-208 effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 01-2 amended Subdiv. (9) to make a technical change, effective March 30, 2001; P.A. 14-155 added new Subdiv. (5) defining “importer”, redesignated existing Subdiv. (5) as Subdiv. (6), added new Subdiv. (7) defining “Nonparticipating Manufacturer Adjustment Settlement Agreement”, redesignated existing Subdivs. (6) to (10) as Subdivs. (8) to (12) and redefined “units sold” in redesignated Subdiv. (12), effective January 1, 2015.