Title 7.1, ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO

Sec. 10. High and Fine Reputation. The commission may issue a liquor retailer's permit only to a high grade club, restaurant, or hotel, which has a high and fine reputation for decency and law obedience. In no case shall a liquor retailer's permit be issued or stand unrevoked if …

Sec. 11. (a) A liquor retailer may allow customers to sample the following: (1) Beer. (2) Wines. (3) Liquors. (4) Liqueurs and cordials (as defined in 27 CFR 5.22(h)). (5) Flavored malt beverages. (6) Hard cider. (7) Mixed beverages. (b) Sampling is permitted only: (1) on the liq…

Sec. 12. (a) This section applies to: (1) the holder of a three-way permit that is issued to a civic center, a sports arena, a stadium, an exhibition hall, an auditorium, a theater, a tract that contains a premises that is described in IC 7.1-3-1-14(d)(2), or a convention center;…

Sec. 2. A liquor retailer's permit may be issued under the provisions of this title for premises situated in a city having a population of at least five thousand (5,000). A city or town legislative body, or an officer of one (1) of them, shall have no power or jurisdiction to reg…

Sec. 3. The legislative body of a city or town that has a population of less than five thousand (5,000) shall have the power and jurisdiction to enact an enabling ordinance consenting that liquor retailer's permits may be issued to applicants in respect to premises located within…

Sec. 4. The enabling ordinance authorized by section 3 of this chapter shall be a general ordinance containing no conditions, exceptions or limitations. The enabling ordinance, after it has been duly enacted, may not be altered, amended, or repealed for a period of two (2) years …

Sec. 5. The holder of a liquor retailer's permit issued prior to the repeal, amendment, or expiration of an enabling ordinance authorized by section 3 of this chapter may continue to operate under the holder's permit, during the time that the holder's permit is in force, for a pe…

Sec. 6. (a) A city, town, township, or county shall not enact an ordinance, resolution, policy, or rule which in any way, directly or indirectly, regulates, restricts, enlarges, or limits the operation or business of the holder of a liquor retailer's permit as provided in this ti…

Sec. 8. Three-Way Permits. The commission may issue a liquor retailer's permit only to a person who also is, and continues to be, the holder of both a beer retailer's permit and a wine retailer's permit. However, applications for each of the three (3) types of permits may be made…

Sec. 9. (a) The holder of a liquor retailer's permit shall be entitled to purchase liquor only from a permittee entitled to sell to the liquor retailer under this title. A liquor retailer shall be entitled to possess liquor and sell liquor at retail to a customer for consumption …

Sec. 9.4. A liquor retailer may sell, donate, transport, and deliver liquor to a qualified organization for: (1) an allowable event under IC 7.1-3-6.1; (2) a charity auction under IC 7.1-3-6.2; or (3) an event under IC 7.1-3-6.3. As added by P.L.163-2025, SEC.31.

Sec. 9.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a liquor retailer may limit sales to the following: (1) Persons that the retailer selects to have access to the retailer's facilities and services in return for payment of an annual fee to the retailer. (2) Guests of a person described…

Sec. 1. The chairman shall collect the required annual license fee paid in connection with the issuance of a beer retailer's permit, a beer dealer's permit, a liquor retailer's permit, a supplemental caterer's permit, a liquor dealer's permit, a wine retailer's permit, and a wine…

Sec. 10. There is appropriated from the monies allocated to the general fund under this title, a necessary sum of money to make up any deficiency between the sums from the excise fund actually paid over to the treasuries of the several governmental subdivisions during their respe…

Sec. 2. The chairman shall collect the authorized deduction retained by the state when an application for a permit of a type listed in section 1 of this chapter is denied. The chairman also shall collect the prescribed cost fee paid in connection with the transfer of a permit of …

Sec. 3. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the chairman shall deposit the monies collected under the authority of this chapter daily with the treasurer of the state, and not later than the fifth day of the following month shall cover them into the "excise fund" to be distr…

Sec. 4. Twenty-two percent (22%) of the money in the excise fund shall be deposited in the state general fund on the first day of June and the first day of December of each year. [Pre-1973 Recodification Citation: 7-1-1-41(f).] Formerly: Acts 1973, P.L.55, SEC.1. As amended by Ac…

Sec. 7. (a) Thirty-three percent (33%) of the money in the excise fund shall, upon warrant of the state comptroller, be paid into the general fund of the treasury of the city or town in which the retailer's or dealer's licensed premises are located. The money shall be paid to the…

Sec. 7.5. Forty-five percent (45%) of the money in the excise fund shall be deposited in the enforcement and administration fund under IC 7.1-4-10 on the first day of June and the first day of December of each year. As added by P.L.224-2005, SEC.28. Amended by P.L.165-2021, SEC.1…

Sec. 8. The monies in the excise fund that is distributed to a county, city or town shall be distributed in direct proportion to the amount of retailer's or dealer's annual license fees paid in respect to licensed premises situated in a city or town, or situated within a county b…

Sec. 9. The distribution of the excise fund to be paid into the general fund of a county, city or town shall be distributed by the state treasurer semi-annually on the first day of June and the first day of December of each year. The state comptroller is authorized to draw the st…

Sec. 1. (a) It is unlawful for a commissioner, an officer or employee of the commission, or a member of a local board, to have an interest, either proprietary or by means of a loan, mortgage, or lien, or in any other manner, or to own stock in a corporation which has an interest,…

Sec. 10. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), it is unlawful for a holder of a retailer's permit of any type to acquire, hold, own, or possess an interest of any type in a manufacturer's or wholesaler's permit of any type. (b) It is lawful for a holder of a retailer's permit…

Sec. 12. Use of Another's Warehouse Prohibited. It is unlawful for a holder of a brewer's permit, beer or liquor wholesaler's permit, or a beer or liquor retailer's permit, to own, operate, maintain on his own account, patronize, use, or employ a warehouse, storage, or depot, own…

Sec. 13. (a) A: (1) proprietor of a drug store; (2) corporation holding: (A) an artisan distiller's permit; (B) a distiller's permit; (C) a brewer's permit; (D) a wholesaler's permit; or (E) a permit to retail or deal in alcoholic beverages; or (3) wholesale drug company or a per…

Sec. 14. (a) It is unlawful for the holder of a permit of any type to sell an alcoholic beverage to a person who does not hold an appropriate permit under this title, unless the sale is the sale of an alcoholic beverage to a consumer or employee as expressly authorized in this ti…

Sec. 15. (a) The commission shall establish a manager's questionnaire for managers of licensed premises for the sale of alcoholic beverages. (b) It is unlawful for a person to: (1) manage; or (2) buy when the transfer of the permit is contingent upon terms of a contract or an agr…

Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c), it is unlawful for the holder of a brewer's permit or for a brewer located outside Indiana that meets the requirements of IC 7.1-3-2-4 and IC 7.1-3-2-5 to hold, acquire, possess, own, or control, or to have an interest, claim, or …

Sec. 3. (a) This section applies to a brewer that manufactures, in aggregate, more than ninety thousand (90,000) barrels of beer in a calendar year for sale or distribution within Indiana. (b) It is unlawful for the holder of a brewer's or beer wholesaler's permit to have an inte…

Sec. 4. (a) Except as provided in IC 7.1-3-3-4, an applicant for a beer wholesaler's permit shall have no interest in the following: (1) A permit to manufacture or to sell at retail alcoholic beverages of any kind. (2) Any other permit to wholesale alcoholic beverages. (3) Throug…

Sec. 6. (a) It is unlawful for the holder of a liquor wholesaler's permit to have an interest in a beer permit of any type under this title. (b) A person who knowingly or intentionally violates this section commits a Class B misdemeanor. [Pre-1973 Recodification Citation: 7-1-1-4…

Sec. 8. (a) The holder of an artisan distiller's permit, a distiller's permit, or a rectifier's permit may not own, acquire, or possess a permit to sell liquor at wholesale. A distiller or rectifier may not have an interest in the business of a permittee who is authorized to sell…

Sec. 9. (a) It is unlawful for a person who has an interest in a beer wholesaler's permit to acquire, hold, own, or possess an interest of any type in a beer dealer's or retailer's permit. (b) It is unlawful for a person who has an interest in a liquor wholesaler's permit to acqu…