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Timestamp: 2017-10-22 23:04:04
Document Index: 8840627

Matched Legal Cases: ['§60', '§60', '§60', '§60', '§61', '§60', '§60', '§60', '§60', '§61']

House Bill 4314
By Delegates Rohrbach, Stansbury, Bates, Ellington, Householder, Miller, Perdue, Waxman and B. White
AN ACT to amend and reenact §60-1-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §60-3-11 of said code; to amend and reenact §60-6-7 and §60-6-8 of said code; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-10-33, all relating to prohibiting the sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol and pure caffeine products; defining terms; prohibiting the commissioner from listing or stocking powdered alcohol in inventory; creating a criminal offense for anyone who manufactures or sells, aids or abets in the manufacture or sale of powdered alcohol, or possesses, uses or in any other manner provides or furnishes powdered alcohol; making a second and subsequent offense a felony and providing for increased penalties; creating a criminal offense for any licensee who sells, possesses, possesses for sale, furnishes or provides any powdered alcohol; making a second and subsequent offense a felony and providing for increased penalties; creating a criminal offense for the sale and possession of pure caffeine products; defining relevant terms; providing exclusions; and providing penalties.
That §60-1-5, §60-3-11, §60-6-7 and §60-6-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, and that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-10-33, all to read as follows:
'60-1-5. Definitions.
AAlcohol@ shall means ethyl alcohol whatever its origin and shall include synthetic ethyl alcohol but not denatured alcohol.
ABeer@ shall means any beverage obtained by the fermentation of barley, malt, hops or any other similar product or substitute, and containing more alcohol than that of nonintoxicating beer.
ANonintoxicating beer@ shall means any beverage obtained by the fermentation of barley, malt, hops or similar products or substitute and containing not more alcohol than that specified by section two, article sixteen, chapter eleven of this code.
"Wine" shall means any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of the natural content of fruits, or other agricultural products, containing sugar.
ASpirits@ shall means any alcoholic beverage obtained by distillation and mixed with potable water and other substances in solution and includes brandy, rum, whiskey, cordials and gin.
AAlcoholic liquor@ shall includes alcohol, beer, wine and spirits and any liquid or solid capable of being used as a beverage, but shall not include nonintoxicating beer.
AOriginal package@ shall means any closed or sealed container or receptacle used for holding alcoholic liquor.
ASale@ shall means any transfer, exchange or barter in any manner or by any means, for a consideration, and shall include all sales made by principal, proprietor, agent or employee.
ASelling@ shall includes solicitation or receipt of orders; possession for sale; and possession with intent to sell.
APerson@ shall means an individual, firm, partnership, limited partnership, corporation or voluntary association.
AManufacture@ means to distill, rectify, ferment, brew, make, mix, concoct, process, blend, bottle or fill an original package with any alcoholic liquor.
AManufacturer@ shall means any person engaged in the manufacture of any alcoholic liquor, and among others includes a distiller, a rectifier, a wine maker and a brewer.
ABrewery@ shall means an establishment where beer is manufactured or in any way prepared.
AWinery@ shall means an establishment where wine is manufactured or in any way prepared.
ADistillery@ shall means an establishment where alcoholic liquor other than wine or beer is manufactured or in any way prepared.
APublic place@ shall means any place, building or conveyance to which the public has, or is permitted to have access, including restaurants, soda fountains, hotel dining rooms, lobbies and corridors of hotels and any highway, street, lane, park or place of public resort or amusement: Provided, That the term "public place" shall not mean or include any of the above-named places or any portion or portions thereof which qualify and are licensed under the provisions of this chapter to sell alcoholic liquors for consumption on the premises: Provided, however, That the term Apublic place@ shall not mean or include any legally demarcated area designated solely for the consumption of beverages and freshly prepared food that directly connects and adjoins any portion or portions of a premises that qualifies and is licensed under the provisions of this chapter to sell alcoholic liquors for consumption thereupon: Provided further, That the term Apublic place@ shall also not include a facility constructed primarily for the use of a Division I college that is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or its successor, and used as a football, basketball, baseball, soccer or other Division I sports stadium which holds a special license to sell wine pursuant to the provisions of section three, article eight of this chapter, in the designated areas of sale and consumption of wine and other restrictions established by that section and the terms of the special license issued thereunder.
AState liquor store shall means a store established and operated by the commission under this chapter for the sale of alcoholic liquor in the original package for consumption off the premises.
AAn agency@ shall means a drugstore, grocery store or general store designated by the commission as a retail distributor of alcoholic liquor for the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner.
ADepartment@ shall means the organization through which the commission exercises powers imposed upon it by this chapter.
ACommissioner@ or Acommission@ shall means the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner.
AIntoxicated@ shall means having one's faculties impaired by alcohol or other drugs to the point where physical or mental control or both are markedly diminished.
'60-3-11. Stock or inventory control.
'60-6-7. Specific acts forbidden; indictment.
'60-6-8. Unlawful sale or possession by licensee.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the sale of pure caffeine products and to prohibit the sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol for human consumption.