Virginia Administrative Code
Title 3 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE AND CANNABIS CONTROL
Agency 5 - VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL AUTHORITY
Chapter 70 - OTHER PROVISIONS
Section 3VAC5-70-180 - Regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages in kegs and other containers; permit and registration; other requirements
Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 9, December 16, 2024
A. The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this section:
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C. For the purpose of tracing the kegs and purchaser responsibility, it shall be the responsibility of the seller to affix the properly completed and signed keg registration seal to all containers of four gallons or more of alcoholic beverages prior to the container leaving control of the seller.
D. Except in accordance with this section, no person shall remove, alter, deface, or obliterate the registration seal affixed to a keg pursuant to this section. Throwing away empty kegs made of disposable packaging shall not constitute obliteration of the keg registration seal. If any nonlicensee is in possession of a keg containing alcoholic beverages, and which keg does not bear the registration seal, or upon which keg the registration seal has been altered, defaced or obliterated, the container and its contents shall be deemed to be contraband and subject to seizure and forfeiture.
E. Licensees shall maintain a complete and accurate record of all registration forms and other documentation of the sale of kegs at the place of business designated in his license for a period of one year. Such records shall include the registration seal for nondisposable kegs, which the retail licensee shall remove from the keg upon its return by the purchaser. Moreover, such records regarding keg sales shall during reasonable hours be open to inspection by the board or its special agents or other law-enforcement officers.
F. Before a purchaser may take possession of a keg at the premises of the wholesale licensee after purchasing such keg from a retail licensee, the purchaser shall be required to (i) complete the registration of the transaction at the premises of the retail licensee and (ii) deliver the registration seal to the wholesale licensee who shall affix it to the keg; however, no wholesale licensee may deliver possession of any such keg to the purchaser until the wholesale licensee has collected payment from the retail licensee pursuant to 3VAC5-30-30.
G. Except as authorized by the board, no person shall transfer possession of or give the registered keg or container to another person. This prohibition shall not apply, however, to the return of the registered container to the seller.
Statutory Authority: § 4.1-111 of the Code of Virginia.