Title 57, Intoxicating Liquors

(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided, a violation of this chapter is a Class A misdemeanor.(2) If any person shall, or shall attempt to, forge or counterfeit, or cause or permit to be forged or counterfeited, any stamp, die, plate, official signature, certificate, evidence of tax…

(a) A person may be charged with a violation of § 39-14-405, if the person is:(1) Between eighteen (18) and twenty-one (21) years of age;(2) Visibly intoxicated; or(3) Otherwise disruptive; and(4) Such person is asked by the owner or employee of an establishment that is licensed …

(a) No person shall sell or offer for sale for human consumption powdered or crystalline alcohol. (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to any of the following:(1) Any substance regulated by the food and drug administration in the United States department of health and human services…

(a) (1) As used in this section, “fulfillment house” means an in- or out-of-state entity, other than a winery, or farm winery, wholesaler, non-resident seller, or common carrier, that takes physical possession of a winery direct shipper's wine and handles logistics, including war…

(a) (1) A municipality as defined by § 57-3-101 shall have the authority to impose by ordinance an inspection fee upon licensed retailers of alcoholic beverages as defined by § 57-3-101 or upon retail food store wine licensees located within such municipality.(2) If, pursuant to …

The inspection fee shall be collected by the wholesaler from the retailer following notice given the wholesaler by the municipality that an inspection fee has been imposed by ordinance upon the retailers located within the particular municipality. The inspection fee shall be coll…

(a) Each wholesaler making sales to retailers located within a municipality imposing an inspection fee shall furnish the municipality a report monthly, which report shall contain a list of the alcoholic beverages sold to each retailer located within the municipality, the wholesal…

(a) The inspection fee provided for herein shall be in lieu of all other gross receipt or inspection fees imposed upon wholesalers or retailers of alcoholic beverages by municipalities and no other additional or similar fees shall be imposed by ordinance. (b) No municipality shal…

This part shall be known as the “Nonresident Liquor Seller's Permit Act of 1981.”

(a) A nonresident seller's permit is required of any manufacturer, distillery, winery, importer, broker, or person which sells or distributes alcoholic beverages to any wholesaler licensed under § 57-3-203 or any manufacturer licensed under § 57-3-202, regardless of whether the s…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in § 57-3-602(c), the holder of a nonresident seller's permit is authorized to:(1) Solicit and take orders for alcoholic beverages from wholesalers licensed under § 57-3-203; and(2) Ship or cause to be shipped into this state alcoholic beverages i…

(1) No holder of a nonresident seller's permit, nor any officer, director, agent, or employee of the holder, nor any affiliate of the holder, regardless of whether the affiliation is corporate or by management, direction, or control, may do any of the following:(1) Have an intere…

(a) Any manufacturer, distillery, winery, importer or other person desiring to obtain a nonresident seller's permit may make application for such to the commission on forms provided by the commission. (b) In addition, every applicant shall pay to the commission an annual permit f…

No wholesaler licensed under § 57-3-203 may purchase or order any alcoholic beverage for importation into the state from any source other than one possessed of a nonresident seller's permit or a wholesaler licensed pursuant to § 57-3-203 holding a basic permit under the Federal A…

(a) No holder of a nonresident seller's permit may solicit, accept, or fill an order for distilled spirits or wine from a holder of any type of wholesaler's permit unless the nonresident seller is the primary American source of supply for the brand of distilled spirits or wine th…

(a) If a representative of the commission or the department of revenue wishes to examine the books, accounts, records, minutes, letters, memoranda, documents, checks, telegrams, constitution and bylaws, or other records of a nonresident seller's permittee, the representative shal…

This part shall be known as the “Alcohol Server Responsibility and Training Act of 1995.”

The commission is authorized to issue employee permits pursuant to §§ 57-3-203(d), 57-3-203(e), [former] 57-3-204(c) [expired] and server permits pursuant to § 57-4-203(h) in accordance with the requirements of this part.

(a) Any individual may be eligible for an employee permit by completing an application for such a permit on the forms provided by the commission. An applicant for an employee permit must demonstrate to the commission that the applicant is at least eighteen (18) years of age and:(…

(a) Any individual may be eligible for a server permit by completing an application for such a permit on the forms provided by the commission. An applicant for a server permit must demonstrate to the commission that the applicant meets the following requirements:(1) Within one (1…

The commission shall certify any organization or entity seeking to provide alcohol awareness training for employees or servers, or both, upon adequate demonstration to the commission that the curriculum, faculty, materials and facilities of the organization or entity meet such mi…

The commission may conduct a criminal record review of any applicant for an employee or server permit to ensure the applicant's compliance with the requirements of this part. The commission shall employ the best available means to conduct this investigation.

A new server may work for sixty-one (61) days after being hired without the permit required by this part. Any server who has worked for sixty-one (61) days must have the permit required by this part. Upon payment of a reasonable copying fee, the alcoholic beverage commission is a…

Beginning January 1, 2025, each server permit is valid for two (2) years and each employee permit is valid for five (5) years. Employee and server permits issued prior to January 1, 2025, will expire five (5) years from their issuance date.

The commission may assess an application and renewal fee for the permits to be issued under this part. The commission may assess a certification fee to any organization or entity seeking certification under § 57-3-705. The commission shall establish such fees, only pursuant to ru…

The commission is authorized to promulgate appropriate rules to implement this part.

(a) (1) This part is effective in a jurisdiction that authorizes the sale of wine in retail food stores in a referendum in the manner prescribed by § 57-3-106; provided, however, that the jurisdiction must have held and passed, or be located within a county that has held and pass…

(1) For purposes of this part:(1) “Retail food store” means an establishment that is open to the public that derives at least twenty percent (20%) of its sales taxable sales from the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption taxed at the rate provided in § 67…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, an additional class of licenses allowing the sale of wine at retail food stores is created. These licenses shall be known as “retail food store wine licenses” and shall be issued by the alcoholic beverage commission; provided, th…

Each applicant for a retail food store wine license shall pay to the commission a one-time, nonrefundable fee in the amount of four hundred dollars ($400) when the application is submitted for review. A retail food store wine license under this section shall not be issued until t…

The premises of a retail food store wine license may be located in a municipality or the unincorporated areas of a county; provided, that such county or municipality has approved sales of wine by retail food stores by local option election pursuant to § 57-3-801. If a county-wide…

(a) As a condition precedent to the issuance of a license under § 57-3-803, every applicant for a license under that section shall submit with the application to the commission a certificate signed by the county mayor or chair of the county commission in which the licensed premis…

Laws applicable to the issuance, renewal, suspension, and termination of retailer's licenses issued pursuant to part 2 of this chapter and the regulation of and operation by such license holders shall apply in the same manner to retail food store wine licenses and license holders…

(a) A retail food store wine license holder engaging in the business regulated under this part, or any employee thereof, shall not make or permit to be made any sales to minors. Prior to making a sale of wine for off-premises consumption, the adult consumer must present to the li…

No retail food store wine licensee shall sell any alcoholic beverages to any person who is visibly intoxicated, nor shall any retailer selling alcoholic beverages sell to any person accompanied by a person who is visibly intoxicated.

(a) The restrictions in §§ 57-3-404(e) and (f), 57-3-210(g) and (h) and 57-3-204(b) shall not apply to retail food store wine licenses issued pursuant to this part. (b) A retail food store licensed to sell wine under this part shall not be limited to operating one (1) licensed re…

No retail food store shall sell, give away, or otherwise dispense wine except between the hours of eight o'clock a.m. (8:00 a.m.) and eleven o'clock p.m. (11:00 p.m.) on Monday through Saturday and between ten o'clock a.m. (10:00 a.m.) and eleven o'clock p.m. (11:00 p.m.) on Sund…

(a) A retail food store licensed to sell wine under this part shall not store any wine off of the licensed premises. (b) All deliveries of wine to a retail food store must be made by a licensed wholesaler through a common carrier, a contract carrier or on vehicles owned by the wh…

No wholesaler shall sell any product to a retail food store wine licensee on credit and payment for all sales to such licensee by a wholesaler shall be effected upon delivery of the product. In order to facilitate the implementation of this section, all payments to wholesalers by…

No holder of a retail food store wine license shall sell wine in connection with any business involved in the wholesale sale of wine or alcoholic beverages within this state.

(a) No wholesaler licensed under § 57-3-203 and no manufacturer, winery, nonresident seller's permit holder or any employee, agent, representative or salesperson employed by or representing any such wholesaler, manufacturer, winery or nonresident seller's permit holder shall prov…

(a) Any retail food store that is licensed to sell wine must have a permitted manager as prescribed in § 57-3-221 and that manager must work on the premises of the licensed retail food store. A retail food store may have more than one (1) manager per license. (b) All employees of…

(a) No retail food store shall conduct tastings of wine on the premises of the retail food store. (b) A retail food store that has a license pursuant to this part may also hold a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises pursuant to chapter 4 of this title.

(a) The commission shall create a responsible vendor training program for retail food store wine licensees and retailers licensed pursuant to § 57-3-204 similar to the responsible vendor training program established in chapter 5, part 6 of this title. (b) Except as provided in su…

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a retail food store wine licensee shall not sell or give away wine on Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter.

(1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a retailer licensed pursuant to § 57-3-803 that is selling the licensed establishment to a new licensee of the same license type or that is closing the licensed establishment may sell or transfer its wine to the purchasing entity…