Code of Maine Rules › 18 - DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES › 553 - BUREAU OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LOTTERY OPERATIONS (BABLO) › Chapter 2 - PRICING OF SPIRITS › Section 553-2-I - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
As used in this Rule, unless otherwise indicated, the
				  following words and phrases are defined as follows:
A.
Agency liquor store
. "Agency
				liquor store" means a person who is licensed by the Bureau to sell spirits for
				off-premise consumption. Agency liquor stores are the sole source of spirit
				sales to on-premise licensees.
B.
Bureau
. "Bureau" means the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and
				Lottery Operations within the Department of Administrative and Financial
				Services.
C.
Commission
. "Commission" means the State Liquor and Lottery
				Commission established by 5 M.R.S §12004-G, sub-§14.
D.
Director
. "Director" means
				the Director of the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery
				Operations.
E.
Line
				extension
. "Line extension" means the introduction of an additional
				bottle size of a currently approved spirits product or the introduction of an
				additional flavor in the same size of a currently approved spirits
				product.
F.
List
				price
. "List price" means the regular retail price of spirits products
				as approved by the Commission.
G.
NABCA
. "NABCA" means the National Alcohol Beverage Control
				Association which is a trade association representing eighteen (18)
				jurisdictions known as "control jurisdictions." Control jurisdictions regulate
				the wholesale and retail sale and distribution of alcohol within those
				jurisdictions.
H.
Premises
. "Premises" means all parts of the contiguous real estate
				occupied by a person licensed in any way by the Bureau over which that person
				has direct or indirect control or interest, that the person uses in the
				operation of a business licensed by the Bureau and that has been approved by
				that department as proper places for the exercise of a licensed privilege.
				Premises includes the places defined in 28-A M.R.S §2, sub-§24,
				¶¶A and B.
I.
Special price
"Special price" means a temporary reduction of a
				list price for a specific spirits product as approved by the
				Director.
J.
Spirits or
				Spirits Product(s)
. "Spirits" or "Spirits Product(s)" means any liquor
				produced by distillation or, if produced by any other process, strengthened or
				fortified by the addition of distilled spirits of any kind. Spirits does not
				include low-alcohol spirits products as that term is defined in 28-A
				M.R.S§2, sub-§16-A or fortified wine as that term is defined in 28-A
				M.R.S. §2, sub-§11-B.
K.
State's Spirits Distribution Contractor
. "State's Spirits
				Distribution Contractor" means an entity or entities contracted by the State to
				distribute spirits to establishments licensed by the Bureau to sell liquor for
				off-premise consumption. The State's Spirits Distribution Contractor is
				prohibited from selling spirits directly to establishments licensed by the
				Bureau to sell spirits for on-premise consumption.
L.
Supplier
. "Supplier" means a
				person who distills, rectifies, brews, ferments, bottles, or otherwise produces
				spirits.
M.
Supplier's
				Representative
. "Supplier's Representative" means a person or group,
				licensed as a sales representative in the State of Maine, contracted by a
				supplier to be the sole representative of the supplier's product at the retail
				and wholesale level.
N.
Vendor of record
. "Vendor of record" means the "primary source of
				supply," as that term is defined in 28-A M.R.S §1451,
				sub-§3.