Each application for a distributor or wholesaler license shall be accompanied by a fee of one thousand dollars. If the applicant for a license has not entered upon the business of selling cigarettes or tobacco products until after the first day of January in any year, then the fee for a license during the remainder of the fiscal year is one-half the amount set forth in this section. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 10-50-52, the fees collected under this section must be deposited in the nicotine enforcement fund established in § 10-50D-13.

Source: SL 1937, ch 243 , § 2; SDC 1939, § 57.3903; SL 1941, ch 352 ; SL 1951, ch 452 , § 2; SL 1955, ch 415 ; SL 1966, ch 157 , § 14; SL 1970, ch 78 , § 3; SL 1995, ch 72 , § 9; SL 2026, ch 53 , § 2.