This subchapter is promulgated pursuant to the authority granted to the State of Arkansas pursuant to the provisions of the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution specifically for the following purposes: (1) To prevent unfair business practices, discrimination, and undue control of such wholesalers by distillers, manufacturers, importers, and producers; (2) To maintain stability […]
This subchapter does not repeal or supersede any of the provisions of § 3-5-1101 et seq. and to the extent of any conflict, the provisions of § 3-5-1101 et seq. shall prevail.
(a) As used in this section, “brand label” means the label carrying the distinctive design of a brand name of a spirituous liquor or vinous liquor. (b) (1) Every manufacturer, importer, or producer of spirituous and vinous beverages, as defined by § 3-1-102, doing business in the State of Arkansas shall submit to the Alcoholic […]
Any distiller, manufacturer, importer, or producer desiring to change wholesalers with respect to any brand shall file with the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division a wholesaler change request containing the following information as applicable: (1) The name of each brand involved; (2) The case volume in Arkansas for each brand for the current […]
(a) (1) At the same time that the original wholesaler change request is filed with the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, a copy thereof shall be mailed by the distiller, manufacturer, importer, or producer to each wholesaler who may be affected by the proposed changes. Immediately upon receipt of any wholesaler change request, […]
(a) Any hearing held by the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division pursuant to the provisions of § 3-2-405 shall be held within thirty (30) days after the receipt of any notice of objection to a wholesaler change request. (b) The findings of the director made after such hearing shall be presented to the […]
If no objection is filed to the wholesaler change request as provided in § 3-2-406, the proposed changes shall stand automatically approved by the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division at the expiration of such fifteen-day period, conditioned upon the manufacturer’s or importer’s repurchasing all inventory of the subject brand from the previously designated […]
Any distiller, manufacturer, importer, or producer who obtains or acquires in any manner the right to sell, ship, or distribute any label shall for the purpose of this subchapter stand in place of and be subject to all rights, privileges, and duties and obligations of its predecessor or its predecessors from whom such brands or […]
(a) Every manufacturer or importer of beer or other malt products or light wine doing business in the State of Arkansas shall submit to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division one (1) label for each brand of beer or malt product or light wine to be shipped for the first time into or within the state […]
A successor to a distiller, manufacturer, importer, producer, winery, or brewer of beer, malt liquor, light wine, wine, or liquor that continues in business as a distiller, manufacturer, importer, producer, winery, or brewery or that continues to operate under the names of any product acquired by said distiller, manufacturer, importer, producer, winery, or brewer shall […]
(a) The terms, conditions, and requirements of this subchapter are hereby expressly made a part of the terms of and as conditions to the approval granted by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division to distillers, manufacturers, importers, or producers to do business in the state and by the application for, the acceptance of, or the conduct […]
(a) (1) The creation of a dual distributorship is prohibited. (2) An unlawful dual distributorship is created whenever any manufacturer designates as its distributor more than one (1) Arkansas liquor wholesaler in the state or wholesale beer permit holder to distribute the same brand of alcoholic beverage in the same geographical territory, whether a city, […]
A confectionary containing between five-tenths of one percent (0.5%) and five percent (5%) by volume of alcohol shall bear a label stating: “This product contains up to 5% alcohol by volume”.
