Bill Text: MI HB4709 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Liquor; licenses; definition of micro brewer; increase barrel threshold. Amends sec. 109 of 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1109). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4710'13, HB 4711'13, SB 0504'13, SB 0505'13, SB 0506'13, SB 0507'13, SB 0650'13
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-4)
Status: (Passed) 2014-03-26 - Assigned Pa 42'14 With Immediate Effect [HB4709 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4709-Enrolled.html
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Reps. Cotter, MacGregor, Kelly, Pscholka, Heise, Haines, Howrylak, Switalski, Geiss, Rendon, Irwin, VerHeulen and Olumba
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4709
AN ACT to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled “An act to create a commission for the control of the alcoholic beverage traffic within this state, and to prescribe its powers, duties, and limitations; to provide for powers and duties for certain state departments and agencies; to impose certain taxes for certain purposes; to provide for the control of the alcoholic liquor traffic within this state and to provide for the power to establish state liquor stores; to prohibit the use of certain devices for the dispensing of alcoholic vapor; to provide for the care and treatment of alcoholics; to provide for the incorporation of farmer cooperative wineries and the granting of certain rights and privileges to those cooperatives; to provide for the licensing and taxation of activities regulated under this act and the disposition of the money received under this act; to prescribe liability for retail licensees under certain circumstances and to require security for that liability; to provide procedures, defenses, and remedies regarding violations of this act; to provide for the enforcement and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to provide for allocation of certain funds for certain purposes; to provide for the confiscation and disposition of property seized under this act; to provide referenda under certain circumstances; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 109 (MCL 436.1109), as amended by 2010 PA 213.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 109. (1) “Manufacturer” means a person engaged in the manufacture of alcoholic liquor, including, but not limited to, a distiller, a rectifier, a wine maker, and a brewer.
(2) “Master distributor” means a wholesaler that acts in the same or similar capacity as a brewer, wine maker, outstate seller of wine, or outstate seller of beer for a brand or brands of beer or wine to other wholesalers on a regular basis in the normal course of business.
(3) “Micro brewer” means a brewer that produces in total less than 60,000 barrels of beer per year and that may sell the beer produced to consumers at the licensed brewery premises for consumption on or off the licensed brewery premises and to retailers as provided in section 203. In determining the 60,000-barrel threshold, all brands and labels of a brewer, whether brewed in this state or outside this state, shall be combined and all facilities for the production of beer that are owned or controlled by the same person shall be treated as a single facility.
(4) “Minor” means an individual less than 21 years of age.
(5) “Mixed spirit drink” means a drink produced and packaged or sold by a mixed spirit drink manufacturer or an outstate seller of mixed spirit drink that contains 10% or less alcohol by volume consisting of spirits mixed with nonalcoholic beverages or flavoring or coloring materials and that may also contain 1 or more of the following:
(a) Water.
(b) Fruit juices.
(c) Fruit adjuncts.
(d) Sugar.
(e) Carbon dioxide.
(f) Preservatives.
(6) “Mixed spirit drink manufacturer” means any person licensed under this act to manufacture mixed spirit drink in this state and to sell mixed spirit drink to a wholesaler. For purposes of rules promulgated by the commission, a mixed spirit drink manufacturer shall be treated as a wine manufacturer but is subject to the rules applicable to spirits for manufacturing and labeling.
(7) “Mixed wine drink” means a drink or similar product marketed as a wine cooler that contains less than 7% alcohol by volume, consists of wine and plain, sparkling, or carbonated water, and contains any 1 or more of the following:
(a) Nonalcoholic beverages.
(b) Flavoring.
(c) Coloring materials.
(d) Fruit juices.
(e) Fruit adjuncts.
(f) Sugar.
(g) Carbon dioxide.
(h) Preservatives.
(8) “Outstate seller of beer” means a person licensed by the commission to sell beer that has not been manufactured in this state to a wholesaler in this state in accordance with rules promulgated by the commission.
(9) “Outstate seller of mixed spirit drink” means a person licensed by the commission to sell mixed spirit drink that has not been manufactured in this state to a wholesaler in this state in accordance with rules promulgated by the commission. For purposes of rules promulgated by the commission, an outstate seller of mixed spirit drink shall be treated as an outstate seller of wine but is subject to the rules applicable to spirits for manufacturing and labeling.
(10) “Outstate seller of wine” means a person licensed by the commission to sell wine that has not been manufactured in this state to a wholesaler in this state in accordance with rules promulgated by the commission and to sell sacramental wine as provided in section 301.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 504.
(b) Senate Bill No. 505.
(c) Senate Bill No. 506.
(d) Senate Bill No. 507.
(e) Senate Bill No. 650.
(f) House Bill No. 4710.
(g) House Bill No. 4711.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
