1. The Department shall notify each wholesale dealer and retail dealer when any changes are made to the directory pursuant to NRS 370.675, including, without limitation, when a manufacturer, brand family or style of cigarettes is added to or removed from the directory, by sending a notice to the electronic mail address of the wholesale dealer or retail dealer provided to the Department pursuant to NRS 370.073.

2. A retail dealer may, not later than 60 days after receiving a notice pursuant to subsection 1 that a manufacturer, brand family or style of cigarettes has been removed from the directory pursuant to NRS 370.675, sell any cigarettes in its possession from the manufacturer, brand family or style. The retail dealer shall, at the expiration of the 60-day period, turn over possession of any unsold cigarettes to the Department for disposal in the manner provided in subsection 4 of NRS 370.270.

3. A wholesale dealer shall not purchase cigarettes for resale from a manufacturer, or of a style or brand family, which has been removed from the directory by the Department, or for which the wholesale dealer receives a notice of removal from the Department, until the manufacturer, style or brand family is reentered in the directory by the Department.

4. A wholesale dealer that receives a notice pursuant to subsection 1 that a manufacturer, brand family or style of cigarettes has been removed from the directory pursuant to NRS 370.675 shall, not later than 20 days after receiving the notice, identify and set aside any cigarettes of that manufacturer or of that brand family or style of cigarettes for sale or distribution outside of the borders of this State pursuant to NRS 370.210 and keep a record of the destination state for that product, or return any cigarettes of that manufacturer or of that brand family or style to the manufacturer or wholesale dealer.

(Added to NRS by 2013, 2653; A 2019, 472, 639)