123.22 - STATE MONOPOLY.
123.22 STATE MONOPOLY.
The division has the exclusive right of importation into the state
of all forms of alcoholic liquor, except as otherwise provided in
this chapter, and a person shall not import alcoholic liquor, except
that an individual of legal age may import and have in the
individual's possession an amount of alcoholic liquor not exceeding
one liter or, in the case of alcoholic liquor personally obtained
outside the United States, four liters for personal consumption only
in a private home or other private accommodation. A distillery shall
not sell alcoholic liquor within the state to any person but only to
the division, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. This
section vests in the division exclusive control within the state as
purchaser of all alcoholic liquor sold by distilleries within the
state or imported, except beer and wine, and except as otherwise
provided in this chapter. The division shall receive alcoholic
liquor on a bailment system for resale by the division in the manner
set forth in this chapter. The division shall act as the sole
wholesaler of alcoholic liquor to class "E" liquor control licensees.
No person, acting individually or through another acting for the
person shall directly or indirectly, or upon any pretense, or by any
device, manufacture, sell, exchange, barter, dispense, give in
consideration of the purchase of any property or of any services or
in evasion of this chapter, or keep for sale, or have possession of
any intoxicating liquor, except as provided in this chapter; or own,
keep, or be in any way concerned, engaged, or employed in owning or
keeping, any intoxicating liquor with intent to violate any provision
of this chapter, or authorize or permit the same to be done; or
manufacture, own, sell, or have possession of any manufactured or
compounded article, mixture or substance, not in a liquid form, and
containing alcohol which may be converted into a beverage by a
process of pressing or straining the alcohol therefrom, or any
instrument intended for use and capable of being used in the
manufacture of intoxicating liquor; or own or have possession of any
material used exclusively in the manufacture of intoxicating liquor;
or use or have possession of any material with intent to use it in
the manufacture of intoxicating liquors; however, alcohol may be
manufactured for industrial and nonbeverage purposes by persons who
have qualified for that purpose as provided by the laws of the United
States and the laws of this state. Such alcohol, so manufactured,
may be denatured, transported, used, possessed, sold, and bartered
and dispensed, subject to the limitations, prohibitions and
restrictions imposed by the laws of the United States and this state.
Any person may manufacture, sell, or transport ingredients and
devices other than alcohol for the making of homemade wine. Section History: Early Form
[C51, § 924--928; R60, § 1559, 1563, 1583, 1587; C73, § 1523,
1540--1542, 1555; C97, § 2382; SS15, § 2382; C24, 27, 31, § 1924;
C35, § 1921-f54, 1924; C39, § 1921.054, 1924; C46, 50, 54, 58,
62, 66, 71, § 123.54, 125.3; C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 123.22] Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 32, § 18; 86 Acts, ch 1246, § 733; 88 Acts, ch 1241, §
4; 89 Acts, ch 161, § 2
Referred to in § 123.26, 123.28