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SC Code § 61-6-2230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2230. Drinking contests or games prohibited; definitions.

 (A) A person licensed to sell alcoholic liquors or liquor by the drink pursuant to this article may not knowingly conduct, operate, organize, promote, advertise, run, or participate in a "drinking contest" or "drinking game".  (B) For purposes of this section, "drinking contest" or " drinking game" includes, but is not limited to, a contest, game, event, or other endeavor which encourages or promotes the consumption of alcoholic beverages by participants at extraordinary speed or in increased quantities or in more potent form. "Drinking contest" or "drinking game" does not include a contest, game, event, or endeavor in which alcoholic beverages are not used or consumed by participants as part of the contest, game, event, or endeavor but instead are used solely as a reward or prize. Selling alcoholic beverages in the regular course of business is not considered a violation of this section.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 98, Section 2; 2005 Act No. 139, Section 20.  Subarticle 8  Hospitality Cabinets
SC Code § 61-6-2300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2300. Definitions.

 As used in this subarticle:  (1) "Alcoholic beverages" means alcoholic liquors, as defined in Section 61-6-20, and beer and wine, as defined in Section 61-4-10.  (2) "Legal drinking age" means the age when a person legally may purchase or consume an alcoholic beverage.  (3) "Hospitality cabinet" means a closed container, refrigerated in whole or in part or nonrefrigerated, where access to the interior portion where alcoholic beverages are contained is restricted by means of a locking device which requires the use of a key, magnetic card, or similar device.  (4) "Qualified facility" means a hotel, inn, or motel licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption and which contains guest room accommodations. It includes condominiums owned or managed by an otherwise qualified facility.  (5) "Qualified registered guest" means each person of legal drinking age who signs the guest register of a qualified facility or takes equivalent action for the purpose of registering as a guest of the qualified facility.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 13, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2310. Qualified facilities; hospitality cabinets; notification of approval.

 After approval by ordinance by the governing body of the county or municipality in which a qualified facility licensed to sell alcoholic beverages on its premises is located, the qualified facility also may sell the beverages in sealed containers in individual portions to its qualified registered guests by means of a hospitality cabinet located in the rooms of these guests, if the conditions of this chapter are met. Within ten days of approval by the governing body, qualified facilities within its jurisdiction and the South Carolina Department of Revenue must be notified of the approval.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 13, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2320. Limitations on alcoholic beverages contained in cabinets.

 (A) The type of alcoholic beverages contained in a hospitality cabinet of a qualified facility is limited to those beverages for which the facility is licensed to sell on its premises.  (B) The hospitality cabinet may contain no more than thirty individual portions of alcoholic beverages at one time.  (C) The hours during which guests may have access to a hospitality cabinet are not limited to the hours that the qualified facility is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages unless this provision is specified by the governing body in the ordinance.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 13, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2330. Portion of cabinets containing nonalcoholic beverages or food; restrictions.

 A hospitality cabinet may be part of another furniture unit or device, refrigerated in whole or in part or nonrefrigerated, from which nonalcoholic beverages or food may be purchased by the guests in qualified facility guest rooms. However, if nonalcoholic beverages or food may be purchased, the portion of the hospitality cabinet or similar device in which alcoholic beverages are stored must be a hospitality cabinet as defined in Section 61-6-2300.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 13, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2340. Locking of cabinet containing alcoholic beverages; limits on access.

 (A) Those portions of a hospitality cabinet containing alcoholic beverages must remain locked at all times when a guest room is unrented, except for taking inventory or restocking and replenishing the hospitality cabinet.  (B) Access to a hospitality cabinet in a particular guest room must be provided, by furnishing a key, magnetic card, or similar device, only to a qualified registered guest of legal drinking age, registered to stay in the guest room.  (C) Before providing a key, magnetic card, or similar device required to obtain access to the hospitality cabinet in a particular guest room to the qualified registered guest, the licensee shall verify that the qualified registered guest is of legal drinking age.  (D) A key, magnetic card, or similar device required to obtain access to the hospitality cabinet in a particular guest room may be given only to the qualified registered guest if requested by that guest and only if the guest is not visibly or obviously intoxicated.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 13, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2350. Alcoholic beverage restock and replenishment supplies.

 (A) Alcoholic beverages used to restock and replenish a facility's hospitality cabinets must be kept locked in a separate, secure room or cabinet, except when the hospitality cabinets are restocked and replenished.  (B) The hospitality cabinets may be restocked and replenished with alcoholic beverages only during those hours when the beverages may be sold on the premises.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 13, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2360 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2360. Regulations.

 The Department of Revenue shall promulgate regulations to implement this article.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 13, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2370 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2370. Civil penalties.

 In lieu of the punishment provided in Section 61-2-250 and notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person or qualified facility found guilty of violating the provisions of this subarticle is punishable by a civil fine of not less than one hundred dollars.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 13, Section 1.  Subarticle 9  Miscellaneous Provisions  Editor's Note  2005 Act No. 139, Section 25, provides as follows:  "This act establishes a license to sell alcoholic liquors by the drink. All statutes and regulations applicable to minibottle licenses or permits or applications for licenses or permits apply to licenses or permits for alcoholic liquors by the drink. All minibottle licenses or permits in effect before the effective date of this act are considered to be licenses or permits to sell alcoholic liquors by the drink after the effective date of this act through the expiration of the license or permit."
SC Code § 61-6-2400 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2400. Taxation.

 Alcoholic liquors sold by the drink must be taxed pursuant to Chapter 33, Title 12.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 139, Section 21.
SC Code § 61-6-2410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2410. Restaurants with Class A licenses.

 A restaurant with a Class A license issued by the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) may serve food or beverages at its adjoining facilities located outside the restaurant if the food is prepared in a kitchen of the restaurant which is subject to inspection by DHEC and is placed on individual plates or in individual serving dishes inside the restaurant, and if uncovered containers in which the beverages are served are filled only to satisfy the order of a customer.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2420. Restaurants with Class B licenses.

 This article does not authorize a Class B Restaurant to sell, dispense, barter, or trade in alcoholic liquors by the drink. The law controlling Class B Restaurants in reference to the sale or dispensing of alcoholic liquors is not affected in any manner.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 139, Section 22.
SC Code § 61-6-2430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2430. Discounting of prices by wholesale distributor.

 A wholesale distributor of alcoholic liquor may discount product price based on quantity purchases if all discounts are on price only for each location, appear on the sales records, and are available to all licensed retail dealers with a wholesaler's basic permit issued pursuant to the Federal Alcohol Administration Act or any other alcoholic liquor retail license.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 139, Section 2.  Subarticle 11  Penalties for Violations of Article 5
SC Code § 61-6-2600 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2600. Penalties.

 Except as otherwise provided in this title, a person who transports, possesses, or consumes alcoholic liquors except in a manner permitted by this article or a person who violates any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days. In addition, a person licensed to sell alcoholic liquors pursuant to the provisions of this article who acts to avoid the payment of the excise tax imposed on the serving of alcoholic beverages by the drink provided for in Chapter 33, Title 12 or who violates another provision of this article must:  (1) for a first offense, be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or have his license suspended for not more than thirty days, or both;  (2) for a second offense within three years of the first offense, be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or have his license suspended for not more than one hundred eighty days, or both;  (3) for a third offense within three years of the first offense, be fined not less than five hundred dollars and have his license revoked permanently;  (4) for a violation involving the avoidance of taxes, be fined not less than one thousand dollars and permanent revocation of his license.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 139, Section 23.
SC Code § 61-6-2610 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2610. Further penalties.

 A person, corporation, or organization who has in its possession, custody, or within its control alcoholic liquors which are handled, stored, kept, possessed, transported, used, or distributed in violation of any provision of the ABC Act or with the design of avoiding payment of license taxes provided in Chapter 33 of Title 12, or other taxes must be required to pay a penalty of twenty dollars per container to be assessed by the department as other taxes are collected. The department may, upon good cause shown, remit any penalties provided in this section in whole or in part. In addition, these alcoholic liquors are contraband and may be seized and confiscated without a warrant by the division, its respective agents, or a peace officer, and must be disposed of in accordance with Section 61-6-4310.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2800 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2800. Applicability.

 The provisions of this article are applicable, notwithstanding any other provision of law.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2810 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2810. Exemption for South Carolina manufacturers.

 A South Carolina manufacturer licensed under the provisions of Article 3 of this chapter is exempt from the provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2820 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2820. Importation by registered producers.

 No person other than a registered producer may ship, move, or cause to be shipped or moved alcoholic liquors from a point outside the State to a point inside the State, and then only in accordance with the provisions of this article. No brand may be registered by the producer unless the person registering the brand is either the American producer or the primary American source of supply in the United States of the brand as herein defined; and it is unlawful for a wholesaler in this State to order, purchase, or receive any alcoholic liquors from any producer who is not the primary American source of supply for the brand ordered, purchased, or received. The term "primary American source of supply" means the manufacturer, distiller, vintner, winery, or owner of vinous or spirituous beverages at the time it becomes a marketable product, or bottler, or the exclusive agent of any such person, who, if the product cannot be secured directly from the manufacturer by an American distributor, is the source closest to the manufacturer in the channel of commerce from whom the product can be secured by an American distributor, or who, if the product can be secured directly from the manufacturer by an American distributor, is the manufacturer.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2830 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2830. Registration of brand names.

 No alcoholic liquors may be shipped or moved into this State unless each brand of alcoholic liquors is registered with the department in accordance with the provisions of this article and regulations of the department promulgated thereunder.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2840 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2840. Applications for certificates of registration.

 (A) A producer must apply to the department on forms the department prescribes for a certificate of registration. This certificate must be approved and issued before the shipment of alcoholic liquors by the producer to a point within the State.  (B) A producer, at the time application is made for a certificate of registration, must remit a fee of two hundred dollars to the department. When a certificate is applied for on or after March first, the fee is one hundred fifty dollars.  (C) A certificate of registration is valid from the date of issue until the second August thirty-first after the issuance of the license.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2850 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2850. Certificates of registration of brand names.

 (A) A registered producer, before the shipment of alcoholic liquors to a point within the State, must obtain from the department a certificate of registration for each brand of alcoholic liquors intended to be shipped to a point within this State. The department must provide appropriate forms for application for certificate of registration of brands of alcoholic liquors.  (B) An application for a certificate of registration of brands of alcoholic liquors must be accompanied by a fee of twenty dollars payable to the department for each brand except the first five brands of a registered producer.  (C) A certificate of registration of brands of alcoholic liquors is valid from the date of issue to the second August thirty-first after the issuance of the license.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2860 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2860. Affirmation of corporate policy.

 A registered producer of alcoholic liquors must, at the time of application for registration in this State, file with the department an affirmation of corporate policy with regard to sales of all brands owned, controlled, sold, offered for sale, franchised, or distributed by the producer in this State. The affirmation must certify that the producer shall not wilfully sell or offer for sale any alcoholic liquors of a particular brand and proof in any other state at a price lower than the price these liquors are sold or offered for sale to licensed South Carolina wholesalers.  "Price", as used in this section, means platform price at the distillery and does not include price differentials based on transportation costs, containers, or other costs not directly related to the quality and proof of the product concerned. Quantity discount prices for liquors sold to monopoly states or elsewhere must not be considered to be violations of the producer's affirmation if these discount prices are also offered to South Carolina wholesalers for purchases in the same quantities.  A registered producer who fails to file this affirmation or wilfully violates the pledges contained in the affirmation must have its registration and privileges to import and sell alcoholic liquors in the State revoked, canceled, or suspended at the discretion of the department for a period as the department considers necessary and proper.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2870 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2870. Biennial certificate of registration.

 No person is qualified as a producer representative unless he applies to the department for a biennial certificate of registration and the certificate has been approved and issued. The department must provide appropriate forms for application for a certificate of registration as a producer representative.  Upon submission of an application for a certificate of registration, a fee of fifty dollars must be paid to the department.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2880 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2880. Interest in wholesale or retail liquor business.

 No person having a direct or indirect interest in a wholesale or retail liquor business in this State may qualify as a producer representative.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.
SC Code § 61-6-2890 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2890. Warehouses.

 (A) A registered producer may not store alcoholic liquors in a warehouse of the registered producer unless licensed by the department. Application for license to operate a warehouse must be filed on forms prescribed by the department.  (B) When an application for a warehouse license is submitted, a fee of four hundred dollars must be paid to the department. Where application is made for a warehouse license on or after March 1, the fee is one hundred fifty dollars. A warehouse license is valid from the date of issue until the second August 31 after the issuance of the license.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1; 1998 Act No. 442, Section 5E.
SC Code § 61-6-2900 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2900. Shipment or transfer of imported liquors.

 Alcoholic liquors must be shipped or moved from a point outside this State to a point inside the State only by railroad companies, steamship companies, express companies, or truck companies authorized to do business in the State as common carriers by the Department of Public Safety, by wholesalers licensed by the department, or by registered producers in their own trucks. Alcoholic liquors must be shipped or moved only to the warehouse of the food manufacturer licensed pursuant to Section 61-6-710, or the registered producer in care of the producer representative who is registered to handle the property of the registered producer originating the shipment. The shipment of alcoholic liquors must be either stored in the warehouse of the food manufacturer licensed pursuant to Section 61-1-710 or in a licensed warehouse of the registered producer or, after delivery to the producer representative is complete, may then be shipped to a licensed wholesaler by common carriers described in this section, by wholesalers licensed by the department or by registered producers in their own trucks. Shipments of alcoholic liquors from a licensed producer's warehouse to a licensed South Carolina wholesaler may be made in a vehicle owned or operated by the wholesaler. If alcoholic liquors are stored in the warehouse of a registered producer, or after delivery to the producer representative is complete, they may be shipped to a licensed wholesaler or to a point outside this State. Before any shipment or transfer, the food manufacturer or producer representative, as appropriate, must apply to the department, on forms prescribed by the department, for permission to ship or transfer the alcoholic liquors, and the food manufacturer or producer representative must have received a certificate of approval of the shipment or transfer.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1; 2003 Act No. 40, Section 1.D.
SC Code § 61-6-2910 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act|Section 61-6-2910. Invoices covering shipments into State.

 Before shipment into this State, the registered producer must mail to the department by first-class mail a correct and complete invoice listing in detail the items in the shipment by quantity, type, brand, size, price; the point of origin; and the point of destination. Before or at the time of shipment, a copy of the bill of lading must be forwarded to the department by first-class mail.  Immediately upon acceptance of delivery of the shipment by the producer representative, the producer representative must furnish the department with a copy of the invoice covering the shipment with endorsement thereon showing the date, time, and place delivery was accepted.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 415, Section 1.