57-3-605 - Application for permit Annual fee Expiration date Verified statement.

57-3-605. Application for permit Annual fee Expiration date Verified statement.

(a)  Any manufacturer, distillery, winery, importer or other person desiring to obtain a nonresident seller's permit may make application for such to the commission on forms provided by the commission.

(b)  In addition, every applicant shall pay to the commission an annual permit fee which is established at one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) if such applicant shall have shipped, sold or otherwise distributed fewer than one hundred (100) cases of any alcoholic beverage in this state in the year immediately preceding application. If such applicant shall have shipped, sold or otherwise distributed one hundred (100) cases or more of any alcoholic beverage in this state in the year immediately preceding application, it shall pay an annual permit fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to the commission.

(c)  Each permit shall be valid for one (1) calendar year.

(d)  Every applicant which has registered to import wine into this state shall provide to the commission a verified statement that neither such applicant, nor any agent or affiliate of such applicant, has a policy which would permit the selling, shipment or distribution of alcoholic beverages to any person in this state not possessed of a license issued pursuant to § 57-3-203, and that, for the previous year, neither such applicant nor any agent or affiliate of such applicant has sold, solicited for sale or distributed any alcoholic beverages to any person or enterprise in this state not possessing a license issued pursuant to § 57-3-203.

[Acts 1981, ch. 157, § 5; 1991, ch. 23, § 1; 2004, ch. 876, § 4.]