Georgia Commons

Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 3. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES · Chapter 6. WINE · Article 2. STATE LICENSE REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION AND SALE

3-6-21.2. Sunday sales on farm wineries; off-site sales; sales in ‘‘special entertainment districts.’’

Active

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

  1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title to the contrary, in all counties in which the sale of wine is lawful by a farm winery and in all municipalities in which the sale of wine is lawful by a farm winery, a farm winery which is licensed to sell its wine in a tasting room or other licensed farm winery facility within the county or municipality, as the case may be, for consumption on the premises or in closed packages for consumption off the premises shall be authorized to sell its wine and the wine of any other Georgia farm winery licensee on Sundays from 12:30 P.M. until 12:00 Midnight in a tasting room or other licensed farm winery facility, to the same extent as its county or municipal license would otherwise permit; provided, however, that if such sales of wine on Sundays are lawful at a time earlier than 12:30 P.M. within the county or municipality in which the licensed premises of the Georgia farm winery is located, the Georgia farm winery shall be authorized to sell its wine and the wine of any other Georgia farm winery licensee beginning at such earlier time. Nothing in this Code section shall be construed so as to authorize a farm winery to sell wine as provided in this Code section on any other premises which are not actually located on the property where such farm wine is produced, except in special entertainment districts designated by the local governing authority of the county or municipality, as applicable.

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 1981, § 3-6-21.2, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 222, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1164, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1514, § 1B; Ga. L. 2001, p. 1026, § 1; Ga. L. 2018, p. 896, § 2/SB 17. The 2018 amendment, effective May 8, 2018, in the first sentence of this Code section, substituted ‘‘a tasting’’ for ‘‘the tasting’’, and added the proviso.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1988, ‘‘license’’ was substituted for ‘‘licenses’’ near the end of the first sentence.

Law reviews

For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1 (2018).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t1-t2-t3-(v3)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V3, 2019 edition, pages 831 to 832; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 206dab95f27a.

Ask about this section

The answer is drawn from this section and, when they fit, the other sections of its chapter. It quotes the text and names the section for each claim. Not legal advice.

Answers come from this document. Not legal advice.