Every Dallas retailer selling cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, or alternative nicotine products must hold an annual retailer permit from the Texas Comptroller under Texas Tax Code and Health & Safety Code Chapter 161, with Dallas City Code Chapter 56 enforcing local compliance.
Texas Tax Code Chapters 154 (cigarettes), 155 (other tobacco), and Health & Safety Code Chapter 161 require permits from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts before any retail tobacco or e-cigarette sale. Permits cost roughly $180 every two years for combined cigarette/tobacco/e-cigarette retail and must be displayed conspicuously. Permittees must keep invoices for four years, allow Comptroller and Dallas inspections, prevent self-service displays except in adult-only stores, post Tobacco 21 signage, and reject sales to anyone under 21. Dallas Code Chapter 56 reinforces signage, ID checks, minor-decoy compliance checks, and local penalties. Permit suspension or revocation follows repeated violations.
Retailing tobacco or vapor products without a Comptroller permit, hiding the permit, missing age-warning signs, allowing prohibited self-service, failing to keep four years of invoices, or selling to underage buyers triggers fines and permit suspension.
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