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2016 SESSION
SB 758 Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery license.
Introduced by: Richard H. Black | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery license. Allows farm winery licensees to trade fruits or agricultural products grown or produced on such farms with other farm winery licensees and provides that such fruit or agricultural products shall be considered to be grown or produced on the receiving farm for the purposes of meeting the requirement that a certain percentage of the fruits or agricultural products used by farm winery licensees to manufacture wine shall be grown or produced on such farm, provided that verification is provided to the receiving farm that the fruit or agricultural products traded or exchanged were grown or produced in the Commonwealth by the farm winery licensee engaging in such trade or exchange. Both licensees shall maintain complete and accurate records of the quantity and source of any fruit or agricultural products traded or exchanged. Such trades or exchanges shall be bona fide transactions based on the fair market value of the fruits or agricultural products traded or exchanged. The bill defines "agricultural products."
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:
Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery license. Allows farm winery licensees to trade fruits or agricultural products grown or produced on such farms with other farm winery licensees and provides that such fruit or agricultural products shall be considered to be grown or produced on the receiving farm for the purposes of meeting the requirement that a certain percentage of the fruits or agricultural products used by farm winery licensees to manufacture wine shall be grown or produced on such farm, provided that verification is provided to the receiving farm that the fruit or agricultural products traded or exchanged were grown or produced in the Commonwealth by the farm winery licensee engaging in such trade or exchange. Both licensees shall maintain complete and accurate records of the quantity and source of any fruit or agricultural products traded or exchanged. Such trades or exchanges shall be bona fide transactions based on the fair market value of the fruits or agricultural products traded or exchanged.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery license. Allows Class A farm winery licensees to trade fruits or agricultural products grown or produced on such farms with other farm winery licensees and provides that such fruit or agricultural products shall be considered to be grown or produced on the receiving farm for the purposes of meeting the requirement that at least 51 percent of the fruits or agricultural products used by a Class A farm winery licensee to manufacture wine be grown or produced on such farm.