Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 3. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES · Chapter 5. MALT BEVERAGES · Article 2. STATE LICENSE REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS FOR MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTION, AND SALE

3-5-21. Sale, offer for sale, or possession of bottles or cans not having prescribed identification on crowns or lids; alternate identification for use on certain imported bottles or containers.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
The commissioner may prescribe by regulation that no person engaged in the business of selling, manufacturing, or distributing malt beverages specified in this chapter in bottles or cans may sell, offer for sale, or possess for the purpose of sale any bottles or cans containing such malt beverages unless the crowns or lids contain the word ‘‘Georgia’’ or its abbreviation, such as ‘‘GA.’’#
(b)
The commissioner may prescribe an alternate identification for certain bottles or containers of malt beverages manufactured in a foreign country and which have been imported into this state by a licensed importer, manufacturer, or wholesaler for resale.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 5A-4502, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1573, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 790, § 2.

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