Tobacco Board (Code of Virginia: Title 3.2. Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food; Chapter 24; secs. 3.2-2400 through 3.2-2411) Pays/Territoire États-Unis d'Amérique Sous-division territoriale Virginia Type du document Législation Date 1950 (2018) Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Plantes cultivées Mot clé Tabac Institution Fonds spécial Questions de procédures Gouvernance Taxe/impôt Recherche Éducation Développement agricole Commerce/industrie/sociétés Aire géographique Amériques, Arctique, Pacifique du Est, Amérique du Nord, Atlantique Nord Résumé This Chapter of the Code of Virginia concerns the Tobacco Board which is established within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services of Virginia. It provides rules for composition and appointment of members and determines the powers and duties of the Board. Notably, the Board plans and conducts campaigns of education, advertising, publicity, sales promotion, and research to increase the demand for, and the consumption of, bright fluecured and type 21 dark-fired tobaccos in Virginia. The Chapter also establishes two special nonreverting funds known as the Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Promotion Fund and the Dark-Fired Tobacco Promotion Fund. Moneys in the funds must be used solely for the purposes set forth in this Chapter. Finally, the Chapter provides rules for levying excise taxes on bright flue-cured and all type 21 dark-fired tobacco from the warehouse or handler where and when the tobacco is first sold. Texte intégral Anglais Site web law.lis.virginia.gov