32B-4-420 (Effective 07/01/11) - Unlawful adulteration. - Utah Statutes

32B-4-420 (Effective 07/01/11). Unlawful adulteration.
(1) For purposes of this section, "tamper" means to do one or more of the following tothe contents of a package:
(a) fortify;
(b) adulterate;
(c) contaminate;
(d) dilute;
(e) change its character or purity; or
(f) otherwise change.
(2) A person may not, for any purpose, mix or allow to be mixed with an alcoholicproduct sold or supplied by the person as a beverage any of the following:
(a) a drug;
(b) methylic alcohol;
(c) a crude, unrectified, or impure form of ethylic alcohol; or
(d) another deleterious substance.
(3) (a) The following may not engage in an act listed in Subsection (3)(b):
(i) a package agent;
(ii) a retail licensee;
(iii) a permittee;
(iv) a beer wholesaler licensee;
(v) a liquor warehouser licensee;
(vi) a supplier; or
(vii) an importer.
(b) A person listed in Subsection (3)(a) may not:
(i) tamper with the contents of a package of alcoholic product as originally marketed by amanufacturer;
(ii) refill or partly refill with any substance the contents of an original package ofalcoholic product as originally marketed by a manufacturer;
(iii) misrepresent the brand of an alcoholic product sold or offered for sale; or
(iv) sell or furnish a brand of alcoholic product that is not the same as that ordered by apurchaser without first advising the purchaser of the difference.

Enacted by Chapter 276, 2010 General Session