The cigarette tax is imposed and becomes due and payable when a person receives cigarettes to make a first sale.

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1640, ch. 389, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.

Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 409, Sec. 2, eff. June 7, 1991.

Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1334 (H.B. 4614), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2019.