Title 27 — Intoxicating LiquorsRelease 119-73not60
§121 State Statutes as Operative on Termination of Transportation; Original Packages
Title 27 › Chapter 6— TRANSPORTATION IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE › § 121
Summary
When alcoholic drinks are brought into a state or territory for use, sale, or storage, they must follow that state's laws as soon as they arrive. Being in the original package does not exempt them.
Full Legal Text
Title 27, §121
Intoxicating Liquors — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
All fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors or liquids transported into any State or Territory or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquids or liquors had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.
Legislative History
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Short Title
Act Aug. 8, 1890, is popularly known as the “Wilson Act” or the “Original Packages Act”.
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Citation
27 U.S.C. § 121
Title 27 — Intoxicating Liquors
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60