2022 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 450
BY SENATOR STINE
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 26:271.1(A), relative to microbreweries; to provide for retail
3 sales on or off premises; to provide for transfers; to provide for conditions; and to
4 provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 26:271.1(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง271.1. Microbrewery; retail sales on or off premises
8 A.(1) Any person who has properly obtained a microbrewer's permit as
9 provided for in R.S. 26:271, shall be authorized to engage in the brewing of beer and
10 other malt beverages in a quantity not to exceed twelve thousand five hundred
11 barrels during the licensed year. The holder of such permit shall also be authorized
12 to sell the manufactured beverages at retail for consumption on or off the licensed
13 premises, if the holder also has been issued a Retailer, Class A permit.
14 (2) A licensed wholesaler may transfer from a permitted microbrewery
15 to another permitted microbrewery up to fifty percent of the total
16 manufactured beverages sold at the receiving microbrewery provided all of the
17 following conditions are met:
18 (a) The microbrewery receiving the transferred manufactured beverages
19 shall be wholly owned by the permitted microbrewery that brews the
20 manufactured beverages authorized for transfer.
21 (b) The receiving microbrewery shall have, at a minimum, a ten barrel
22 brewing system.
23 (c) The microbrewery transferring the manufactured beverages shall be
24 responsible for paying all applicable federal, state, and local excise taxes on the
25 transferred manufactured beverages.
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1 (d) Only one permitted microbrewery within the same municipality shall
2 be allowed to receive the transfer of manufactured beverages pursuant to this
3 Section.
4 (3) A licensed wholesaler transferring the manufactured beverages
5 pursuant to this Section shall be exempt from the provisions of R.S. 26:359(A).
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PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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