Title 67, Alcoholic Beverages

(1) When this article has been made effective and operative in any county as a result of an election called and held as provided in Section 67-1-11, the same may be made ineffective and inapplicable therein by an election called and held upon a petition filed with the board of su…

(1) The legalizing provisions of this article may be effective, applicable and operative in any municipality located in a county which has voted against coming out from under the dry law if a local option election shall be called and held in such municipality in the manner and wi…

In any county having two judicial districts, each such judicial district shall be construed to be a political subdivision or subdivision of government on the same basis as a county, and as such, a judicial district will be entitled to all of the rights, privileges, and immunities…

(1) (a) Before an area may be designated by the governing authorities of a municipality as an area in which facilities which are defined as qualified resort areas in Section 67-1-5(o)(iii)5 may be located, an election shall be held, under the election laws applicable to the munic…

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to have or possess either alcoholic beverages or personal property intended for use in violating the provisions of this article, or regulations prescribed under this article, or Chapter 31 of Title 97, Mississippi Code of 1972. No property …

(1) Any alcoholic beverage, light wine, beer, light spirit product or raw material seized under the authority of this article, Chapter 3 of Title 67, or Chapter 31 of Title 97, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be submitted to the custody of the Mississippi Department of Revenue fo…

Except as otherwise noted, the administration and enforcement of this article shall be vested in the Department of Revenue. There is hereby created the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division within and as a part of the Department of Revenue.

The Commissioner of Revenue of the Department of Revenue shall appoint a director of the division, and may appoint or employ such agents, inspectors, clerks and other employees for such division as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article or to perform the dut…

No person shall be appointed director, agent or inspector for the commission under this article who is not a citizen of the United States. No director, agent, inspector or other employee shall be appointed under this article who has been convicted of any violation of any federal …

Before entering into the duties of his office, the director, and such other agents, inspectors and employees appointed under the provisions of this article as the commission shall designate, shall give surety bond, with some company authorized to do business in the State of Missi…

The director, secretary, agents, inspectors, clerks and employees of the commission appointed under this article shall receive such reasonable compensation as may be fixed by the commission. The director and all agents, inspectors, clerks, and other employees shall be reimbursed …

The policy of this state is reannounced in favor of prohibition of the manufacture, sale, distribution, and transportation of alcoholic beverages; and the provisions against such manufacture, sale, distribution, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, as contained in Chapter 3…

The department shall issue to all agents and inspectors appointed under this article a written certificate of appointment under the seal of said department, of which judicial notice shall be taken by all courts of this state. Such agents and inspectors are hereby declared to be p…

Each person employed as a sworn law enforcement officer by the department who retires for superannuation or for reason of disability under the Public Employees’ Retirement System shall be allowed to retain as personal property one (1) sidearm which was issued to such law enforcem…

(1) No member of the Board of Tax Appeals, Commissioner of Revenue of the Department of Revenue, or person appointed or employed by the department under this article, including its warehouse operator, shall solicit, accept or receive any gift, gratuity, emolument or employment fr…

The department may, for authentication of records, process and proceedings, adopt, keep and use a seal for the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the Department of Revenue, of which seal judicial notice shall be taken in all courts of this state. Any process, notice or other …

(a) The Department of Revenue, under its duties and powers with respect to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division therein, shall have the following powers, functions and duties:(a) To issue or refuse to issue any permit provided for by this article, or to extend the permit or re…

Any appeal from an order of the Board of Tax Appeals regarding an action taken under this article shall be filed without supersedeas to the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, if the appellant is the department, or to the county of the domi…

(1) The department is hereby created a wholesale distributor and seller of alcoholic beverages, not including malt liquors, within the State of Mississippi. It is granted the right to import and sell alcoholic beverages at wholesale within the state, and no person who is granted …

Any authorized retail distributor who shall purchase or receive alcoholic beverages from any source except from the department or its warehouse operator, unless authorized by rules and regulations of the department promulgated under Section 67-1-41, shall be guilty of a misdemean…

No manufacturer, rectifier or distiller of alcoholic beverages shall sell or attempt to sell any such alcoholic beverages, except malt liquor, within the State of Mississippi, except to the department, or as provided in Section 67-1-41, or pursuant to Section 67-1-51. A producer …

(a) The holder of a manufacturer’s distiller’s permit who distills alcoholic beverages at a distillery located in this state may offer and provide limited amounts of alcoholic beverages on the premises of the distillery for the purpose of tasting or sampling, subject to the follo…

All distillers or distributors having contracts with the State Tax Commission for the sale of alcoholic beverages to the State Tax Commission, before making delivery of any merchandise to the State Tax Commission, shall register with the Secretary of State giving their name, addr…

All distillers or distributors having contracts with the State Tax Commission for the sale of alcoholic beverages to said commission, shall, on or before February 1st of each year, file a statement, under oath, with the State Tax Commission and with the Secretary of State, listin…

(a) For the purposes of this article and unless otherwise required by the context:(a) “Alcoholic beverage” means any alcoholic liquid, including wines of more than five percent (5%) of alcohol by weight, capable of being consumed as a beverage by a human being, but shall not incl…

(1) Permits which may be issued by the department shall be as follows:(a) Manufacturer’s permit. A manufacturer’s permit shall permit the manufacture, importation in bulk, bottling and storage of alcoholic liquor and its distribution and sale to manufacturers holding permits unde…

(1) The holder of a delivery service permit under Section 67-1-51:(a) May contract with the holder of a package retailer’s permit or an on-premises retailer’s permit under Section 67-1-51 or the holder of a beer, light wine and light spirit product retail permit under Section 67-…

A package retailer’s permit issued under Section 67-1-51(b) shall be authorized to offer tastings or samplings to be conducted at the package retailer’s permitted place of business during which tastes or samples of alcoholic beverages or wine may be offered or served to consumers…

(1) Application for permits shall be in such form and shall contain such information as shall be required by the regulations of the department; however, no regulation of the department shall require personal financial information from any officer of a corporation applying for an …

No permit of any type shall be issued by the department until the applicant has first filed with the department a sworn statement disclosing all persons who are financially involved in the operation of the business for which the permit is sought. If an applicant is an individual,…

(a) Before a permit is issued the department shall satisfy itself:(a) That the applicant, if an individual, or if a partnership, each of the members of the partnership, or if a corporation, each of its principal officers and directors, or if a limited liability company, each memb…

Where the word “applicant” is used in Section 67-1-57 or in Sections 67-1-51, 67-1-53, 67-1-55 and 67-1-63, it shall also mean and include each member of a partnership, limited liability company or association and all officers and the owner or owners of the majority of the corpor…

All permits issued by the commission shall expire twelve months from date of issuance, and no permit shall be issued for a period longer than one year. Each permit shall state a class to which it belongs, the name of the permittee, the address of the premises for which granted, a…

(1) Any permittee may renew his permit at the expiration thereof for an additional term of one (1) year, provided he is then qualified to receive a permit and the premises for which the renewal is sought are suitable for such purposes. The renewal privilege herein provided for sh…

In any county having heretofore voted, or which hereafter votes, to come out from under the prohibition law, in which there is not located an incorporated municipality within such county, the state tax commission may issue package retailer’s permits in such county.

No permit shall be transferred by the permittee to any other person or any other place except with the written consent of the commission upon a regular application therefor in writing and upon consideration thereof as provided in this article for an original application for a per…

No person holding any permit issued under the provisions of this article shall engage in any business or activity authorized by such permit unless such person shall qualify so to do by complying with all statutes of the United States of America, and all regulations issued pursuan…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in Section 67-9-1 for the transportation and possession of limited amounts of alcoholic beverages for the use of an alcohol processing permittee, and subject to all of the provisions and restrictions contained in this article, the manufacture, sal…

The department may revoke or suspend any permit issued by it for a violation by the permittee of any of the provisions of this article or of the regulations promulgated under it by the department. (a) Permits must be revoked or suspended for the following causes:(a) Conviction of…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this article, any applicant or holder of a permit issued under this article which is aggrieved by an action of the Department of Revenue to deny his application for a permit, to deny the renewal of his permit or to revoke or suspend his permit …

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section, every manufacturer, including native wine, native spirit, or craft spirit producers, within or without the state, and every other shipper of alcoholic beverages who sells any alcoholic beverage, including native …

(a) If the holder of a package retailer’s permit, or any employee thereof:(a) Shall sell, offer for sale or permit to be sold in, on or about the premises covered by such permit any alcoholic beverages except in the original sealed and unopened packages; or(b) Shall permit the dr…

(1) It shall be unlawful for the holder of a manufacturer’s or wholesaler’s permit, or anyone connected with the business of such holder, or for any other distiller, wine manufacturer, rectifier, blender or bottler, to have any financial interest in any premises upon which any al…

No alcoholic beverage shall be sold by any wholesaler to any retailer, nor shall any retailer purchase any alcoholic beverage, except for cash. Each delivery of any alcoholic beverage to a retail permittee shall be accompanied by an invoice of sale or delivery slip which shall be…

(1) (a) Any permittee or other person who shall sell, furnish, dispose of, give, or cause to be sold, furnished, disposed of, or given, any alcoholic beverage to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of …

(1) It shall be unlawful for any permittee or any employee or agent thereof to sell or furnish any alcoholic beverage to any person who is visibly intoxicated, or to any person who is known to habitually drink alcoholic beverages to excess, or to any person who is known to be an …