Bill 3732

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               3732
Ratification Number:       689
Act Number                 598
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   Provisions also applicable to beer, ale,
                           porter, and malt beverages

(A598, R689, H3732)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 61-9-625, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE IMPORTATION OF WINE INTO THIS STATE BEING LIMITED TO THE REGISTERED PRODUCER THEREOF AND THE REGISTRATION OF A PARTICULAR BRAND BEING AVAILABLE ONLY TO THE PRODUCER OR PRIMARY SOURCE OF SUPPLY, SO AS TO MAKE THE ABOVE PROVISIONS ALSO APPLICABLE TO BEER, ALE, PORTER, AND MALT BEVERAGES.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Provisions also applicable to beer, ale, porter, and malt beverages

SECTION 1. Section 61-9-625 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 61-9-625. No person other than a registered producer may ship or move, or cause to be shipped or moved, any beer, ale, porter, malt beverage, or wine from a point outside South Carolina to a point within the geographic limits of South Carolina, and then only in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. No brand may be registered by the producer unless the person registering the brand is either the American producer or the primary American source of supply in the United States of the brand as herein defined, and it is unlawful for any wholesaler in this State to order, purchase, or receive any beer, ale, porter, malt beverage, or wine from any producer who is not the primary American source of supply for the brand ordered, purchased, or received.

The term primary American source of supply means the manufacturer, distiller, vintner, brewer, producer, winery, or owner of vinous or spirituous beverages at the time they become a marketable product, or bottler, or the exclusive agent of these persons, who, if the product cannot be secured directly from the manufacturer by an American distributor, is the source closest to the manufacturer in the channel of commerce from whom the product can be secured by an American distributor, or who, if the product can be secured directly from the manufacturer by an American distributor, is the manufacturer. The provisions of this section do not apply to any person who produces beer, ale, porter, malt beverage, or wine solely in this State and who subsequently ships or sells this beer, ale, porter, malt beverage, or wine solely in this State."

Time effective

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.