Every Fort Worth retailer selling cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, or alternative nicotine products must hold an annual retailer permit from the Texas Comptroller under the Texas Tax Code and Health and Safety Code Chapter 161, with Fort Worth Code enforcing local compliance.
Texas Tax Code Chapters 154 (cigarettes) and 155 (other tobacco), plus Health and 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 Fort Worth inspections, prevent self-service displays except in adult-only stores, post Tobacco 21 signage, and reject sales to anyone under 21. Fort Worth Code Compliance reinforces signage, ID checks, and minor-decoy compliance checks. 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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