123.173 - WINE PERMITS -- CLASSES -- AUTHORITY. - Iowa Statutes

123.173 WINE PERMITS -- CLASSES -- AUTHORITY. 1. Permits exclusively for the sale or manufacture and sale of wine shall be divided into four classes, and shall be known as class "A", "B", "B" native, or "C" native wine permits. 2. A class "A" wine permit allows the holder to manufacture and sell, or sell at wholesale, in this state, wine as defined in section 123.3, subsection 37. The holder of a class "A" wine permit may manufacture in this state wine having an alcoholic content greater than seventeen percent by weight or twenty-one and twenty-five hundredths percent of alcohol by volume for shipment outside this state. All class "A" premises shall be located within the state. A class "B" or class "B" native wine permit allows the holder to sell wine at retail for consumption off the premises. A class "B" or class "B" native wine permittee who also holds a class "E" liquor control license may sell wine to class "A", class "B", and class "C" liquor control licensees for resale for consumption on the premises. Such wine sales shall be in quantities of less than one case of any wine brand but not more than one such sale shall be made to the same liquor control licensee in a twenty-four-hour period. A class "B" or class "B" native wine permittee shall not sell wine to other class "B", or class "B" native wine permittees. A class "C" native wine permit allows the holder to sell wine for consumption on or off the premises. 3. A class "A" wine permittee shall be required to deliver wine to a retail wine permittee, and a retail wine permittee shall be required to accept delivery of wine from a class "A" wine permittee, only at the licensed premises of the retail wine permittee. Except as specifically permitted by the division upon good cause shown, delivery or transfer of wine from an unlicensed premises to a licensed retail wine permittee's premises, or from one licensed retail wine permittee's premises to another licensed retail wine permittee's premises, even if there is common ownership of all of the premises by one retail permittee, is prohibited. A class "B" or class "B" native wine permittee who also holds a class "E" liquor control license shall keep and maintain records for each sale of wine to liquor control licensees showing the name of the establishment to which wine was sold, the date of sale, and the brands and number of bottles sold to the liquor control licensee. 4. When a class "B" or class "B" native wine permittee who also holds a class "E" liquor control license sells wine to a class "A", class "B", or class "C" liquor control licensee, the liquor control licensee shall sign a report attesting to the purchase. The class "B" or class "B" native wine permittee who also holds a class "E" liquor control license shall submit to the division, on forms supplied by the division, not later than the tenth of each month a report stating each sale of wine to class "A", class "B", and class "C" liquor control licensees during the preceding month, the date of each sale, and the brands and numbers of bottles with each sale. A class "B" permittee who holds a class "E" liquor control license may sell to class "A", class "B", or class "C" liquor control licensees only if the licensed premises of the liquor control licensee is located within the geographic territory of the class "A" wine permittee from which the wine was originally purchased by the class "B" wine permittee.          Section History: Recent Form 85 Acts, ch 32, §64; 88 Acts, ch 1241, §22; 91 Acts, ch 203, §2, 3; 2003 Acts, ch 143, §7, 17; 2006 Acts, ch 1032, §2