Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › 6 - Liquor Control Seating and Bathrooms › Part I - GENERAL PROVISIONS › D - Conduct of Business › Section 30-6-A29 - Inducements to purchase; tie-in sales; solicitation

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) No permittee in transactions with another
				  permittee shall directly or indirectly offer, furnish, solicit or receive any
				  free goods, discounts, gratuities, gifts, prizes, coupons, premiums,
				  combination items, quantity prices, cash returns, loans, guarantees,
				  inducements or special prices, or other inducements with the sale of alcoholic
				  liquors.
(b) No permittee shall
				  require any purchaser to accept additional liquors in order to make a purchase
				  of any particular desired item.
(c)
				  No direct consumer solicitation, in person or by mail, shall be directly or
				  indirectly engaged in by any distiller, out-of-state shipper, manufacturer or
				  wholesaler.
(d) No out-of-state
				  shipper, manufacturer or wholesaler shall expend moneys directly or indirectly
				  for the purpose of sales promotion and advertising and thereby give a rebate,
				  kickback or discount by means of returning to permittees or proprietors a
				  percentage of the total cost of merchandise purchased from such wholesaler in
				  the nature of free drinks, sampling, advertising and other types of sales
				  promotion.
(e) These provisions
				  shall apply to transactions between all types of permittees, and are intended
				  to prevent artificial stimulation of sales of liquor by any means.
(f) Notwithstanding any provisions of this
				  section to the contrary, an out-of-state shipper or manufacturer licensee may
				  offer to wholesaler licensees funds to be used for product promotion as
				  permitted by federal law and in accordance with the following:
(1) There shall be no restrictions or
				  obligations on the use of such funds, except that such funds shall be used for
				  promotion of the product(s) identified;
(2) Funds shall be offered without
				  discrimination in any manner among wholesalers authorized to distribute the
				  products to be promoted, except that funds may be pro-rated among such
				  wholesalers based upon population of their authorized geographic territory for
				  the product(s) involved, as determined by the most recently completed decennial
				  census; or based upon any other formula not prohibited by section
				  30-63
				  or
				  30-94
				  of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(3) Out-of-state shippers and manufacturers
				  shall file with the department, at least thirty days before the distribution of
				  funds, written notice listing the following:
(A) The total amount of funds to be
				  distributed and the proposed date of distribution;
(B) The product(s) to be promoted and the
				  wholesalers authorized to distribute such products;
(C) If funds are distributed based on
				  population served, the population in the geographic territories of each
				  wholesaler, and the eligible share of funds expressed as a
				  percentage;
(D) If any other
				  formula is used, a detailed exposition of such formula used; and
(E) The amount of promotional funds each is
				  to receive.