235 ILCS 5/6-29.1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 235 - LIQUOR|235 ILCS 5/ - Liquor Control Act of 1934.|Article VI - General Provisions

Sec. 6-29.1. Direct shipments of alcoholic liquor.(a) The General Assembly makes the following findings:(1) The General Assembly of Illinois, having reviewed         this Act in light of the United     States Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Granholm v. Heald,     has determined to conform that law to the constitutional     principles enunciated by the Court in a manner that best     preserves the temperance, revenue, and orderly     distribution values of this Act.(2) Minimizing automobile accidents and fatalities,         domestic violence, health problems, loss of productivity,     unemployment, and other social problems associated with     dependency and improvident use of alcoholic beverages     remains the policy of Illinois.(3) To the maximum extent constitutionally feasible,         Illinois desires to collect sufficient revenue from excise     and use taxes on alcoholic beverages for the purpose of     responding to such social problems.(4) Combined with family education and individual         discipline, retail validation of age, and assessment of the     capacity of the consumer remains the best pre-sale social     protection against the problems associated with the abuse     of alcoholic liquor.(5) Therefore, the paramount purpose of this     amendatory Act is to     continue to carefully limit direct shipment sales of wine produced by makers of wine     and to continue to prohibit such direct shipment sales for     spirits and beer.For these reasons, the Commission shall establish  a system to notify the out-of-state trade of this prohibition  and to detect violations. The Commission shall request  the Attorney General to extradite any offender.(b) Pursuant to the  Twenty-First Amendment of the United States Constitution allowing states to  regulate the distribution and sale of alcoholic liquor and pursuant to the  federal Webb-Kenyon Act declaring that alcoholic liquor shipped in interstate  commerce must comply with state laws, the General Assembly hereby finds and  declares that selling alcoholic liquor from a point outside this State  through various direct marketing means, such as catalogs,  newspapers, mailers, and the Internet,  directly to residents of this State poses a serious threat  to the State's efforts to prevent youths from accessing alcoholic liquor;  to State revenue collections; and to the economy of this State.Any person manufacturing, distributing, or selling  alcoholic liquor who knowingly ships or transports or causes the shipping or  transportation of any alcoholic liquor from a point outside this State to a  person in this State who does not hold a manufacturer's, distributor's,  importing distributor's, or non-resident dealer's license issued by the Liquor  Control Commission, other than a shipment of sacramental wine to a bona fide  religious organization, a shipment authorized by Section 6-29, subparagraph (17) of Section 3-12, or any other  shipment authorized by this Act, is in violation of this Act.The Commission, upon determining, after investigation, that a person  has violated this Section, shall give notice to the person by certified mail to  cease and desist all shipments of  alcoholic liquor into this State and to withdraw from this State within 5  working days after receipt of the notice all shipments of alcoholic liquor then  in transit. A person who violates the cease and desist notice is subject to the applicable penalties in subsection (a) of Section 10-1 of this Act.       (Source: P.A. 99-904, eff. 1-1-17.)