Alabama Administrative Code › Title 20 - ALABAMA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 20-X-2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 20-X-2-.01 - Glossary Of Terms

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
The following words or phrases, whenever they appear in
				regulations 20-X-2 through 20-X-19, unless the context clearly indicates
				otherwise, shall have the meaning ascribed to them as follows:
(1)
Alcoholic
			 Beverages
. Any alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, fermented or other
			 alcoholic beverage, or combination of liquors and mixed liquor, a part of which
			 is spirituous, vinous, fermented or otherwise alcoholic, and all drinks or
			 drinkable liquids, preparations or mixtures intended for beverage purposes,
			 which contain one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume, and shall
			 include liquor, beer, and wine, both fortified and table wine.
(2)
Association
. A
			 partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company or any form of
			 unincorporated enterprise owned by two or more persons.
(3)
Beer, or Malt or Brewed
			 Beverages
. Any beer, lager beer, ale, porter, malt or brewed
			 beverage or similar fermented malt liquor containing one-half of one percent or
			 more of alcohol by volume and not in excess of thirteen and nine-tenths percent
			 by volume, by whatever name the same may be called.
(4)
Board
. The
			 Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
(5)
Brandy
. All
			 beverages which are an alcoholic distillate from the fermented juice, mash, or
			 wine of fruit, or from the residue thereof, produced in such manner that the
			 distillate possesses the taste, aroma, and characteristics generally attributed
			 to the beverage, as bottled at not less than 80 degree proof.
(6)
Carton
. The
			 package, container or containers in which alcoholic beverages are originally
			 packaged for shipment to market by the manufacturer, its designated
			 representatives or the importer.
(7)
Cash
. Any United
			 States legal tender currency, credit card, check, guaranteed check, electronic
			 funds transfer, postal money order and/or state warrant.
(8)
Church
. Church
			 shall mean an entire house or structure set apart primarily for use for
			 purposes of public worship, and whose sanctuary is tax exempt under the laws of
			 this state, and in which religious services are held and with which a clergyman
			 is associated, and the entire structure is kept for that use and not put to any
			 other use inconsistent therewith.
(9) Cider, A fermented alcoholic beverage
			 made from apple juice and containing not more than 8.5 percent alcohol by
			 volume.
(10)
(a)
Club
. Class I. A
			 corporation or association organized or formed in good faith by authority of
			 law and which must have at least 150 paid-up members. It must be the owner,
			 lessee or occupant of an establishment operated solely for the objects of a
			 national, social, patriotic, political or athletic nature or the like, but not
			 for pecuniary gain, and the property as well as the advantages of which, belong
			 to all the members and which maintains an establishment provided with special
			 space and accommodations where, in consideration of payment, food with or
			 without lodging is habitually served. The club shall hold regular meetings,
			 continue its business through officers regularly elected, admit members by
			 written application, investigation and ballot and charge and collect dues from
			 elected members.
(b) Class II. A
			 corporation or association organized or formed in good faith by authority of
			 law and which must have at least 100 paid-up members. It must be the owner,
			 lessee or occupant of an establishment operated solely for the objects of a
			 national, social, patriotic, political or athletic nature or the like. The club
			 shall hold regular meetings, continue its business through officers regularly
			 elected, admit members by written application, investigation and ballot and
			 charge and collect dues from elected members.