GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
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HOUSE BILL DRH40050-ML-71 (02/07)
Short Title: Increase Small Brewery Limits. |
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Representative Speciale. |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the small brewery limit from twenty‑five thousand barrels to one hundred thousand barrels before the brewery must use a wholesale distributor to distribute its products.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 18B‑1104(8) reads as rewritten:
"(8) Obtain a malt
beverage wholesaler permit to sell, deliver, and ship at wholesale only malt
beverages manufactured by the brewery. The authorization of this subdivision
applies to a brewery that sells, to consumers at the brewery, to wholesalers,
to retailers, and to exporters, fewer than 25,000100,000 barrels,
as defined in G.S. 81A‑9, of malt beverages produced by it per year.
A brewery not exceeding the sales quantity limitations in this subdivision may
also sell the malt beverages manufactured by the brewery at not more than three
other locations in the State, where the sale is legal, upon obtaining the
appropriate permits under G.S. 18B‑1001. A brewery operating any
additional retail location pursuant to this subdivision shall also offer for
sale at that location a reasonable selection of competitive malt beverage
products."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.