Licenses-Requirement For

(1) Applicable licenses must be secured for each established place of business where tobacco products are handled or sold for resale and for each automobile, truck or other vehicle from which tobacco products are peddled for resale. Provided, however, separate tobacco licenses shall not be required for automobiles, trucks or other vehicles used by any licensee for the sole purpose of delivering tobacco products in fulfillment of orders previously taken and from which no direct sales are made. (2) The sale of manufactured tobacco products through vending machines will not be permitted unless such vending machines are so constructed as to permit representatives of the Department to readily determine whether the tobacco products being sold through such machines have the necessary cigarette tax stamps properly affixed to such products. Tobacco products vending machines shall have as a minimum visibility feature a glass covered opening of such dimensions as to permit visibility of not less than two (2) packages of cigarettes and/or other tobacco products in each column. No tobacco products vending machine shall hereafter be put into use in this state that does not meet such minimum visibility requirement. Any tobacco products vending machine placed on location shall have securely attached to the front of each machine the name and address of the owner and/or servicing agent. (3) Persons from without the state selling or delivering tobacco products within Tennessee shall be privileged to obtain licenses, purchase and affix cigarette tax stamps, obtain statutory discounts on cigarette tax stamps purchased and perform all other acts relating thereto in like manner and under the same conditions as Tennessee licensees.