2. Any person, other than a licensee permitted under this act to possess any unstamped cigarettes, who possesses 2,000 but fewer than 20,000 cigarettes without the stamp or stamps required by this act being affixed thereto or stamped in violation of subsection b. of section 405 shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree; and any such person who possesses 20,000 or more cigarettes without the stamp or stamps required by this act being affixed thereto or stamped in violation of subsection b. of section 405 of P.L.1948, c.65 (C.54:40A-15) shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 54:40A-28.1
Possession of cigarettes without proper stamp, violations
Known as the Uniform Transitional Utility Assessment Act
The act spans §§ 54:10A-1 to 54:8A-99 (2,083 sections).
L.1977, c.188, s.2; amended 1999, c.328, s.5; 2013, c.145, s.10.
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