2015 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 68. Revenue and Taxation
§68-425. Definitions.

As used in Sections 425 through 429 of this title:

1. "Tribally owned or licensed store" means a store or place of business which is owned and operated by a federally recognized Indian tribe or nation, other than a federally recognized Indian tribe or nation which has entered into a compact with the State of Oklahoma pursuant to the provisions of subsection C of Section 346 of this title during the period that such compact is effective, on Indian country within the territorial jurisdiction of that tribe or nation or which is duly licensed by such tribe or nation pursuant to tribal laws or ordinances to conduct business located on Indian country within the territorial jurisdiction of that tribe or nation;

2. "Federally recognized Indian tribe or nation" means an Indian tribal entity which is recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as having a special relationship with the United States;

3. "Indian country" means:

a.land held in trust by the United States of America for the benefit of a federally recognized Indian tribe or nation,

b.all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including rights-of-way running through the reservation,

c.all dependent Indian communities within the borders of the United States whether within the original or subsequently acquired territory thereof, and whether within or without the limits of a state, and

d.all Indian allotments, the Indian titles to which have not been extinguished, including individual allotments held in trust by the United States or allotments owned in fee by individual Indians subject to federal law restrictions regarding disposition of said allotments and including rights-of-way running through the same;

4. "Member of the tribe" or "tribal member" means a person who is duly enrolled within the membership of the federally recognized Indian tribe or nation which owns or licenses the store;

5. "Nonmember of the tribe or nation" or "nontribal member" means, with respect to a particular Indian tribe or nation, any person who is not a duly enrolled member of that tribe or nation, and shall include any person who is a member of another Indian tribe or nation but not a member of that tribe or nation;

6. "Untaxed tobacco products" means packages of tobacco products upon which taxes required by state law have not been paid and includes tobacco products upon which the incorrect rate of tax applicable to the retail establishment at which the tobacco product is sold has been paid, regardless of the identity of the establishment which the tobacco product has been sold, shipped, consigned or delivered;

7. "Contraband tobacco products" means untaxed tobacco products for which taxes are required to be paid pursuant to the provisions of Sections 425 through 428 of this title or Section 401 et seq. of this title and which are in the possession, custody or control of any person, for the purpose of being consumed, sold, offered for sale or consumption or transported to any person in this state other than a wholesaler licensed under Section 415 of this title; provided, contraband tobacco products shall not include untaxed tobacco products sold to veterans' hospitals, to state-operated domiciliary homes for veterans or to the United States for sale or distribution by said entities in accordance with Sections 419 through 421 of this title;

8. "Taxed tobacco products" means packages of tobacco products upon which taxes required by law have been paid;

9. "Commission" means the Oklahoma Tax Commission; and

10. "Person" shall include any individual, company, partnership, joint venture, joint agreement, association (mutual or otherwise), corporation, trust, estate, business trust receiver or trustee appointed by any state or federal court, syndicates or any combination acting as a unit, in the plural or singular number.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 339, § 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 434, § 19, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.