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CHAPTER 497 An Act to amend and reenact §§ 4.1-100, 4.1-200, 4.1-208, 4.1-231, and 4.1-233 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; gourmet brewing shop license; exemptions from licensure. [S 848] Approved March 23, 1995
1. That §§ 4.1-100, 4.1-200, 4.1-208, 4.1-231, and 4.1-233 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
"Alcoholic beverages" includes alcohol, spirits, wine, and beer, and any one or more of such varieties containing one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume, including mixed alcoholic beverages, and every liquid or solid, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits, wine, or beer and capable of being consumed by a human being. Any liquid or solid containing more than one of the four varieties shall be considered as belonging to that variety which has the higher percentage of alcohol, however obtained, according to the order in which they are set forth in this definition.
"Barrel" means any container or vessel having a capacity of more than forty-three ounces.
"Bed and breakfast establishment" means any establishment (i) having no more than fifteen bedrooms; (ii) offering to the public, for compensation, transitory lodging or sleeping accommodations; and (iii) offering at least one meal per day, which may but need not be breakfast, to each person to whom overnight lodging is provided.
"Bottle" means any vessel intended to contain liquids and having a capacity of not more than forty-three ounces.
"Club" means any private nonprofit corporation or association which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of an establishment operated solely for a national, social, patriotic, political, athletic, or other like purpose, but not for pecuniary gain, the advantages of which belong to all of the members. It also means the establishment so operated. A corporation or association shall not lose its status as a club because of the conduct of bingo games or raffles conducted pursuant to Article 1.1 (§ 18.2-340.1 et seq.) of Chapter 8 of Title 18.2 in which nonmembers participate frequently or in large numbers, provided that no alcoholic beverages are served or consumed in the room where such bingo games or raffles are being conducted while such games or raffles are being conducted and that no alcoholic beverages are made available upon the premises to any person who is neither a member nor a bona fide guest of a member.
"Farm winery" means an establishment located on a farm in the Commonwealth with a producing vineyard, orchard, or similar growing area and with facilities for fermenting and bottling wine on the premises where the owner or lessee manufactures wine that contains not more than fourteen percent alcohol by volume. As used in this definition, the terms "owner" and "lessee" shall include a cooperative formed by an association of individuals for the purpose of manufacturing wine. In the event such cooperative is licensed as a farm winery, the term "farm" as used in this definition includes all of the land owned or leased by the individual members of the cooperative as long as such land is located in the Commonwealth.
"Gourmet brewing shop" means an establishment which sells to persons to whom beer may lawfully be sold, ingredients for brewing beer, including packaging, and rents to such persons facilities for manufacturing, fermenting and bottling such beer.
"Member of a club" means a person who maintains his membership in the club by the payment of monthly, quarterly, or annual dues in the manner established by the rules and regulations thereof. It shall also mean a lifetime member whose financial contribution is not less than ten times the annual dues of resident members of the club, the full amount of such contribution being paid in advance in a lump sum.
"Resort complex" means a facility with a hotel owning year-round sports and recreational facilities located contiguously on the same property. The hotel must have a minimum of 250 private guest rooms contained on not less than 100 acres. The Board may consider the purpose, characteristics, and operation of the applicant establishment in determining whether it shall be considered as a resort complex. All other pertinent qualifications established by the Board for a hotel operation shall be observed by such licensee.
"Wine" means any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of the natural sugar content of fruits or other agricultural products containing (i) sugar, including honey and milk, either with or without additional sugar; (ii) one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume; and (iii) no product of distillation. The term includes any wine to which wine spirits have been added, as provided in the Internal Revenue Code, to make products commonly known as "fortified wine" which do not exceed an alcohol content of twenty-one percent by volume.
§ 4.1-200. Exemptions from licensure.
A. The licensure requirements of this chapter shall not apply to:
1. A person in charge of an institution regularly conducted as a hospital or sanatorium for the care of persons in ill health, or as a home devoted exclusively to the care of aged people, who administers or causes to be administered alcoholic beverages to any bona fide patient or inmate of the institution who is in need of the same, either by way of external application or otherwise for emergency medicinal purposes. Such person may charge for the alcoholic beverages so administered, and carry such stock as may be necessary for this purpose. No charge shall be made of any patient for the alcoholic beverages so administered to him where the same have been supplied to the institution by the Board free of charge.
2. The manufacture, sale and delivery or shipment by persons authorized under existing laws to engage in such business of any medicine containing sufficient medication to prevent it from being used as a beverage.
3. The manufacture, sale and delivery or shipment by persons authorized under existing laws to engage in such business of any medicinal preparations manufactured in accordance with formulas prescribed by the United States pharmacopoeia; national formulary, patent and proprietary preparations; and other bona fide medicinal and technical preparations; which contain no more alcohol than is necessary to extract the medicinal properties of the drugs contained in such preparations, and no more alcohol than is necessary to hold the medicinal agents in solution and to preserve the same, and which are manufactured and sold to be used exclusively as medicine and not as beverages.
4. The manufacture, sale and delivery or shipment of toilet, medicinal and antiseptic preparations and solutions not intended for internal human use nor to be sold as beverages.
5. The manufacture and sale of food products known as flavoring extracts which are manufactured and sold for cooking and culinary purposes only and not sold as beverages.
6. Any person who manufactures at his residence or at a gourmet brewing shop for domestic consumption at his residence, but not to be sold, dispensed or given away, except as hereinafter provided, wine or beer or both, in an amount not to exceed the limits permitted by federal law.
Any person who manufactures beer in accordance with this subdivision may remove from his residence an amount not to exceed fifteen gallons of such beer on any one occasion for (i) personal or family use, provided such use does not violate the provisions of this title or Board regulations; (ii) giving to any person to whom beer may be lawfully sold an amount not to exceed seventy-two ounces per person per year, provided such gift is for noncommercial purposes; or (iii) giving to any person to whom beer may lawfully be sold a sample of such beer, not to exceed two ounces by volume for on-premises consumption at events organized for judging or exhibiting such beer, including events held on the premises of a retail licensee. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to authorize the sale of such beer.
7. Any person who keeps and possesses lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages in his residence for his personal use or that of his family. However, such alcoholic beverages may be served or given to guests in such residence by such person, his family or servants when such service or gift is in no way a shift or device to evade the provisions of this title.
8. Any person who manufactures and sells cider to distillery licensees, or any person who manufactures wine from grapes grown by such person and sells it to winery licensees.
9. The sale of wine and beer in or through canteens or post exchanges on United States reservations when permitted by the proper authority of the United States.
10. The keeping and consumption of any lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages at a private meeting or private party limited in attendance to members and guests of a particular group, association or organization at a banquet or similar affair, or at a special event, if a banquet license has been granted.
§ 4.1-208. Beer licenses.
The Board may grant the following licenses relating to beer:
1. Brewery licenses, which shall authorize the licensee to manufacture beer and to sell and deliver or ship the beer so manufactured, in accordance with Board regulations, in closed containers to (i) persons licensed to sell the beer at wholesale, (ii) persons licensed to sell beer at retail for the purpose of resale, only as provided in subdivision B 4 of § 4.1-216, (iii) owners of boats registered under the laws of the United States sailing for ports of call of a foreign country or another state and (iv) persons outside the Commonwealth for resale outside the Commonwealth.
2. Bottlers' licenses, which shall authorize the licensee to acquire and receive deliveries and shipments of beer in closed containers and to bottle, sell and deliver or ship it, in accordance with Board regulations to (i) wholesale beer licensees for the purpose of resale, (ii) owners of boats registered under the laws of the United States sailing for ports of call of a foreign country or another state and (iii) persons outside the Commonwealth for resale outside the Commonwealth.
3. Wholesale beer licenses, which shall authorize the licensee to acquire and receive deliveries and shipments of beer and to sell and deliver or ship it, in accordance with Board regulations, in closed containers to (i) persons licensed under this chapter to sell such beer at wholesale or retail for the purpose of resale, (ii) owners of boats registered under the laws of the United States sailing for ports of call of a foreign country or another state and (iii) persons outside the Commonwealth for resale outside the Commonwealth.
No wholesale beer licensee shall purchase beer for resale from a person outside the Commonwealth who does not hold a beer importer's license unless such wholesale beer licensee holds a beer importer's license and purchases beer for resale pursuant to the privileges of such beer importer's license.
4. Beer importers' licenses, which shall authorize persons licensed within or outside the Commonwealth to sell and deliver or ship beer into the Commonwealth, in accordance with Board regulations, in closed containers, to persons in the Commonwealth licensed to sell beer at wholesale for the purpose of resale.
5. Retail on-premises beer licenses to:
a. Hotels, restaurants and clubs, which shall authorize the licensee to sell beer, either with or without meals, only in dining areas and other designated areas of such restaurants, or in dining areas, private guest rooms, and other designated areas of such hotels or clubs, for consumption only in such rooms and areas.
b. Persons operating dining cars, buffet cars, and club cars of trains, which shall authorize the licensee to sell beer, either with or without meals, in the dining cars, buffet cars, and club cars so operated by them for on-premises consumption when carrying passengers.
c. Persons operating boats for which certificates as a sight-seeing carrier by boat, or a special or charter party by boat have been issued by the State Corporation Commission pursuant to § 56-457.8, which shall authorize the licensee to sell beer, either with or without meals, on such boats operated by them for on-premises consumption when carrying passengers.
d. Grocery stores located in any town or in a rural area outside the corporate limits of any city or town, which shall authorize the licensee to sell beer for on-premises consumption in such establishments. No license shall be granted unless it appears affirmatively that a substantial public demand for such licensed establishment exists and that public convenience and the purposes of this title will be promoted by granting the license.
e. Persons operating food concessions at coliseums, stadia, or similar facilities, which shall authorize the licensee to sell beer, in paper, plastic, or similar disposable containers, during the performance of professional sporting exhibitions, events or performances immediately subsequent thereto, to patrons within all seating areas, concourses, walkways, concession areas, and additional locations designated by the Board in such coliseums, stadia, or similar facilities, for on-premises consumption. Upon authorization of the licensee, any person may keep and consume his own lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages on the premises in all areas and locations covered by the license.
f. Persons operating food concessions at any outdoor performing arts amphitheater, arena or similar facility which has seating for more than 20,000 persons and is located in any county with a population between 210,000 and 216,000. Such license shall authorize the licensee to sell beer during the performance of any event, in paper, plastic or similar disposable containers to patrons within all seating areas, concourses, walkways, concession areas, or similar facilities, for on-premises consumption. Upon authorization of the licensee, any person may keep and consume his own lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages on the premises in all areas and locations covered by the license.
6. Retail off-premises beer licenses, which shall authorize the licensee to sell beer in closed containers for off-premises consumption and to deliver or ship the beer to purchasers in accordance with Board regulations.
7. Retail on-and-off premises beer licenses to persons enumerated in subdivisions 5 a and d, which shall accord all the privileges conferred by retail on-premises beer licenses and in addition, shall authorize the licensee to sell beer in closed containers for off-premises consumption and to deliver or ship the beer to purchasers in accordance with Board regulations.
8. Gourmet brewing shop licenses, which shall authorize the licensee to sell to any person to whom beer may be lawfully sold, ingredients for brewing beer, including packaging, and to rent to such persons facilities for manufacturing, fermenting, and bottling such beer, for off-premises consumption in accordance with subdivision 6 of § 4.1-200.
A. The annual taxes on state licenses shall be as follows:
1. Alcoholic beverage licenses. - For each:
a. Distiller's license, if not more than 5,000 gallons of alcohol or spirits, or both, manufactured during the year in which the license is granted, $350; and if more than 5,000 gallons manufactured during such year, $2,860;
b. Fruit distiller's license, $2,860;
c. Banquet facility license, $145; and
d. Bed and breakfast establishment license, $25.
2. Wine licenses. - For each:
a. Winery license, if not more than 5,000 gallons of wine manufactured during the year in which the license is granted, $350, and if more than 5,000 gallons manufactured during such year, $2,860;
b. Wholesale wine license, $715 for any wholesaler who sells 150,000 gallons of wine or less per year, $1,100 for any wholesaler who sells more than 150,000 but not more than 300,000 gallons of wine per year, and $1,430 for any wholesaler who sells more than 300,000 gallons of wine per year;
c. Wine importer's license, $285;
d. Retail off-premises winery license, $110; and
e. Farm winery license, $145.
3. Beer licenses. - For each:
a. Brewery license, if not more than 10,000 barrels of beer manufactured during the year in which the license is granted, $1,650, and if more than 10,000 barrels manufactured during such year, $3,300;
b. Bottler's license, $1,100;
c. Wholesale beer license, $715 for any wholesaler who sells 300,000 cases of beer a year or less, and $1,100 for any wholesaler who sells more than 300,000 but not more than 600,000 cases of beer a year, and $1,430 for any wholesaler who sells more than 600,000 cases of beer a year;
d. Beer importer's license, $285;
e. Retail on-premises beer license to a hotel, restaurant, club or other person, except a common carrier of passengers by train or boat, $110; for each such license to a common carrier of passengers by train or boat, $110 per annum for each of the average number of boats, dining cars, buffet cars or club cars operated daily in the Commonwealth;
f. Retail off-premises beer license, $90; and
g. Retail on-and-off premises beer license to a hotel, restaurant, club or grocery store located in a town or in a rural area outside the corporate limits of any city or town, $230. ; and
h. Gourmet brewing shop, $175.
4. Wine and beer licenses. - For each:
a. Retail on-premises wine and beer license to a hotel, restaurant, club or other person, except a common carrier of passengers by train, boat or airplane, $230; for each such license to a common carrier of passengers by train or boat, $230 per annum for each of the average number of boats, dining cars, buffet cars or club cars operated daily in the Commonwealth, and for each such license granted to a common carrier of passengers by airplane, $575;
b. Retail on-premises wine and beer license to a hospital, $110;
c. Retail off-premises wine and beer license, including each gift shop, gourmet shop and convenience grocery store license, $175;
d. Retail on-and-off premises wine and beer license to a hotel, restaurant or club, $460; and
e. Banquet license, $30 per license granted by the Board.
5. Mixed beverage licenses. - For each:
a. Mixed beverage restaurant licenses granted to persons operating restaurants, including restaurants located on premises of and operated by hotels or motels, or other persons:
(i) With a seating capacity at tables for up to 100 persons, $430;
(ii) With a seating capacity at tables for more than 100 but not more than 150 persons, $750; and
(iii) With a seating capacity at tables for more than 150 persons, $1,100.
b. Mixed beverage restaurant licenses for restaurants located on the premises of and operated by private, nonprofit clubs:
(i) With an average yearly membership of not more than 200 resident members, $575;
(ii) With an average yearly membership of more than 200 but not more than 500 resident members, $1,430; and
(iii) With an average yearly membership of more than 500 resident members, $2,125.
c. Mixed beverage caterer's licenses, $1,430.
d. Mixed beverage special events licenses, $35 for each day of each event.
e. Annual mixed beverage special events licenses, $430.
f. Mixed beverage carrier licenses:
(i) $145 per annum for each of the average number of dining cars, buffet cars or club cars operated daily in the Commonwealth by a common carrier of passengers by train;
(ii) $430 per annum for each common carrier of passengers by boat; and
(iii) $1,135 for each license granted to a common carrier of passengers by airplane.
6. Temporary licenses. - For each temporary license authorized by § 4.1-211, one-half of the tax imposed by this section on the license for which the applicant applied.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the tax on each license granted or reissued for a period of less than twelve months shall be equal to one-twelfth of the taxes required by subsection A computed to the nearest cent, multiplied by the number of months in the license period.
1. Alcoholic beverages. - For each:
a. Distiller's license, $1,000; no local license shall be required for any person who manufactures not more than 5,000 gallons of alcohol or spirits, or both, during such license year;
b. Fruit distiller's license, $1,500; and
c. Bed and breakfast establishment license, $40.
2. Beer. - For each:
a. Brewery license, $1,000;
c. Wholesale beer license, in a city, $250, and in a county or town, $75; and
d. Retail on-premises beer license for a hotel, restaurant or club and for each retail off-premises beer license in a city, $100, and in a county or town, $25. ; and
e. Gourmet brewing shop, $150.
3. Wine. - For each:
a. Winery license, $1,000; and
b. Wholesale wine license, $50.
4. Wine and beer. - For each:
b. Hospital license, $10; and
c. Banquet license, $5 for each license granted.
5. Mixed beverages. - For each:
c. Mixed beverage caterer's license, $500; and
d. Mixed beverage special events licenses, $10 for each day of each event.
B. Common carriers. - No local license tax shall be either charged or collected for the privilege of selling alcoholic beverages in (i) passenger trains, boats or airplanes and (ii) rooms designated by the Board of establishments of air carriers of passengers at airports in the Commonwealth for on-premises consumption only.
C. Merchants' and restaurants' license taxes. - The governing body of each county, city or town in the Commonwealth, in imposing local wholesale merchants' license taxes measured by purchases, local retail merchants' license taxes measured by sales, and local restaurant license taxes measured by sales, may include alcoholic beverages in the base for measuring such local license taxes the same as if the alcoholic beverages were nonalcoholic. No local alcoholic beverage license authorized by this chapter shall exempt any licensee from any local merchants' or local restaurant license tax, but such local merchants' and local restaurant license taxes may be in addition to the local alcoholic beverage license taxes authorized by this chapter.
D. Delivery. - No county, city or town shall impose any local alcoholic beverages license tax on any wholesaler for the privilege of delivering alcoholic beverages in the county, city or town when such wholesaler maintains no place of business in such county, city or town.
E. Application of county tax within town. - Any county license tax imposed under this section shall not apply within the limits of any town located in such county, where such town now, or hereafter, imposes a town license tax on the same privilege.