PART II. PERMITS FOR DEALERS IN BEVERAGES

OF LOW ALCOHOLIC CONTENT

§271. Permits required; fees

            A. Before engaging in the business of dealing in malt beverages or beverages of low alcoholic content, all manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers, and microbrewers shall obtain from the commissioner, according to established rules and regulations, a permit to conduct each separate manufacturing, wholesale, retail, or microbrewery business and shall pay for each permit a fee not to exceed the amounts provided for in the following schedule and in accordance with regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act for each year the permit is valid:

            (1)(a) Wholesaler dealers of malt beverages containing not more than six percent alcohol by volume – one thousand dollars.

            (b) Wholesaler dealers of malt beverages containing more than six percent alcohol by volume. To obtain this permit, the applicant shall hold the permit provided in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph.

            (2) Retailers, Class A – There shall be three types of Class A retail permits for beverages of low alcoholic content:

            (a) Class A – General which authorizes the retailer to sell for consumption on or off the licensed premises – seventy dollars for each place of business in the state.

            (b) Class A-Restaurant – seventy dollars for each establishment in the state.

            (c) Class A-Special – thirty dollars for each facility in the state.

            (3) Retailers, Class B, which authorizes the retailer to sell in sealed containers prepared for transportation and consumption off the premises or any commercial airline which provisions its aircraft with beverages of low alcoholic content in sealed containers of any size at any airport regularly served by the permittee – seventy dollars.

            (4) Retailers, Class C Package Store – seventy dollars.

            (5) Microbrewer, which authorizes the holder of a Retailers, Class A permit to engage in the brewing of beer and other malt beverages at a single location in an amount not to exceed twelve thousand five hundred barrels, and which further authorizes the sale at retail of such brewed beverages from that location – one thousand dollars.

            (6)(a) In-state manufacturers – one thousand dollars for each establishment in the state.

            (b) Out-of-state manufacturers who do not maintain an establishment in the state.

            (i) Manufacturers who sell less than ten thousand barrels – two hundred dollars.

            (ii) All other out-of-state manufacturers – one thousand dollars.

            (7) Brewers engaged in self-distribution – one thousand five hundred dollars.

            B. The commissioner may require applicants to provide information that is reasonably necessary for the administration of this Section, and may prepare appropriate forms for such applications.

            Acts 1989, No. 781, §1; Acts 1993, No. 111, §1; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 63, §1, eff. July 7, 1994; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 130, §1, eff. July 7, 1994; Acts 1997, No. 658, §2; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 144, §1; Acts 2003, No. 6, §1; Acts 2003, No. 519, §1, eff. June 20, 2003; Acts 2006, No. 803, §1; Acts 2011, No. 259, §1; Acts 2012, No. 26, §1; Acts 2022, No. 467, §1.