Code of Maine Rules
18 - DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
553 - BUREAU OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LOTTERY OPERATIONS (BABLO)
Chapter 2 - PRICING OF SPIRITS
Section 553-2-I - Definitions
Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024
As used in this Rule, unless otherwise indicated, the following words and phrases are defined as follows:
A. Agency liquor store. "Agency liquor store" means a person who is licensed by the Bureau to sell spirits for off-premise consumption. Agency liquor stores are the sole source of spirit sales to on-premise licensees.
B. Bureau. "Bureau" means the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services.
C. Commission. "Commission" means the State Liquor and Lottery Commission established by 5 M.R.S §12004-G, sub-§14.
D. Director. "Director" means the Director of the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations.
E. Line extension. "Line extension" means the introduction of an additional bottle size of a currently approved spirits product or the introduction of an additional flavor in the same size of a currently approved spirits product.
F. List price. "List price" means the regular retail price of spirits products as approved by the Commission.
G. NABCA. "NABCA" means the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association which is a trade association representing eighteen (18) jurisdictions known as "control jurisdictions." Control jurisdictions regulate the wholesale and retail sale and distribution of alcohol within those jurisdictions.
H. Premises. "Premises" means all parts of the contiguous real estate occupied by a person licensed in any way by the Bureau over which that person has direct or indirect control or interest, that the person uses in the operation of a business licensed by the Bureau and that has been approved by that department as proper places for the exercise of a licensed privilege. Premises includes the places defined in 28-A M.R.S §2, sub-§24, ¶¶A and B.
I. Special price "Special price" means a temporary reduction of a list price for a specific spirits product as approved by the Director.
J. Spirits or Spirits Product(s). "Spirits" or "Spirits Product(s)" means any liquor produced by distillation or, if produced by any other process, strengthened or fortified by the addition of distilled spirits of any kind. Spirits does not include low-alcohol spirits products as that term is defined in 28-A M.R.S§2, sub-§16-A or fortified wine as that term is defined in 28-A M.R.S. §2, sub-§11-B.
K. State's Spirits Distribution Contractor. "State's Spirits Distribution Contractor" means an entity or entities contracted by the State to distribute spirits to establishments licensed by the Bureau to sell liquor for off-premise consumption. The State's Spirits Distribution Contractor is prohibited from selling spirits directly to establishments licensed by the Bureau to sell spirits for on-premise consumption.
L. Supplier. "Supplier" means a person who distills, rectifies, brews, ferments, bottles, or otherwise produces spirits.
M. Supplier's Representative. "Supplier's Representative" means a person or group, licensed as a sales representative in the State of Maine, contracted by a supplier to be the sole representative of the supplier's product at the retail and wholesale level.
N. Vendor of record. "Vendor of record" means the "primary source of supply," as that term is defined in 28-A M.R.S §1451, sub-§3.
