GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2017

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SENATE BILL 313

Short Title:      Increase Small Brewery Limits.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Tarte, Krawiec, J. Jackson (Primary Sponsors);  Rabin, Smith-Ingram, and Waddell.
Referred to:	Rules and Operations of the Senate

March 20, 2017

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to increase the NUMBER of barrels of malt beverages a small brewery may self‑distribute.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 18B‑1104(8) reads as rewritten:

"(8)      Obtain a malt beverage wholesaler permit to sell, deliver, and ship at wholesale only malt beverages manufactured by the brewery. The authorization of this subdivision applies to a brewery that sells, to consumers at the brewery, to wholesalers, to retailers, and to exporters, fewer than 25,000103,091 barrels, as defined in G.S. 81A‑9, of malt beverages produced by it per year. A brewery not exceeding the sales quantity limitations in this subdivision may also sell the malt beverages manufactured by the brewery at not more than three other locations in the State, where the sale is legal, upon obtaining the appropriate permits under G.S. 18B‑1001. A brewery operating any additional retail location pursuant to this subdivision shall also offer for sale at that location a reasonable selection of competitive malt beverage products."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 105‑113.68(a)(13) reads as rewritten:

"(13)    Wholesaler or importer. – When used with reference to wholesalers or importers of wine or malt beverages, the term includes resident wineries that sell their wines at retail and resident breweries that produce fewer than 25,000the number of barrels of malt beverages per year.year set forth in G.S. 18B‑1104(8)."

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.