2018 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 69 - PERSONAL PROPERTY
69-2707.01 Nonparticipating manufacturers; bond; amount; failure to make escrow deposits; execution upon bond.

69-2707.01. Nonparticipating manufacturers; bond; amount; failure to make escrow deposits; execution upon bond.

(1) All nonparticipating manufacturers shall post a bond or its cash equivalent for the benefit of the state which is subject to execution under subsection (3) of this section. The bond shall be posted by corporate surety located within the United States, or the cash equivalent of the bond shall be posted by the nonparticipating manufacturer in an account approved by the state. The bond or its cash equivalent shall be posted and evidence of such posting shall be provided to the Tax Commissioner at least ten days in advance of each calendar quarter as a condition to the nonparticipating manufacturer and its brand families being included in the directory for that quarter.

(2) The amount of the bond shall be determined as follows:

(a) Unless subdivision (c) of this subsection is applicable, for a nonparticipating manufacturer or its affiliates which have been listed on any state's directory for at least three years or for any nonparticipating manufacturer whose sales are authorized pursuant to an agreement under section 77-2602.06, the amount of the bond required shall be twenty-five thousand dollars;

(b) Unless subdivision (c) of this subsection is applicable, for a nonparticipating manufacturer or its affiliates which have not been listed on any state's directory for at least three years, the amount of the bond required shall be fifty thousand dollars; and

(c) For a nonparticipating manufacturer or its affiliates which have failed, in the past three years, to make a full and timely escrow deposit due under section 69-2703, unless the failure was not knowing or intentional and was promptly cured upon notice, or for any nonparticipating manufacturer or its affiliates which were involuntarily removed from any state's directory, unless the removal was determined to have been erroneous or illegal, the amount of the bond required shall be the greater of (i) fifty thousand dollars or (ii) the greatest amount of escrow owed by the nonparticipating manufacturer or its predecessor in any calendar year in Nebraska within the preceding five calendar years.

(3) If a nonparticipating manufacturer that posted a bond has failed to make, or have made on its behalf by an entity with joint and several liability, escrow deposits equal to the full amount owed for a quarter within fifteen days following the due date for the quarter under section 69-2703, the state may execute upon the bond, first to recover delinquent escrow, which amount shall be deposited into a qualified escrow account under section 69-2703, and then to recover civil penalties and costs authorized under such section. Escrow obligations above the amount collected on the bond remain due from that nonparticipating manufacturer and, as provided in subdivision (2)(d) of section 69-2703 and section 69-2708.01, from the importers and stamping agents that sold its cigarettes during that calendar quarter.

Source

• Laws 2011, LB590, § 9.