---
title: O.C.G.A. § 3-9-3. Issuance of permits for sale by nonprofit civic organizations of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises or wine at retail for off-premises consumption.
collection: code
id: 3-9-3
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 3-9-3 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/3-9-3
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/3-9-3.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/3-9-3/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t1-t2-t3-(v3)-2019-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=6ea3b7a1_0#page=861
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/3-9.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/3-9-2.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/3-9-4.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES / SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES BY PASSENGER CARRIERS, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, AND HOTELS AND MOTELS / PUBLIC CARRIERS; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
---

# O.C.G.A. § 3-9-3. Issuance of permits for sale by nonprofit civic organizations of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises or wine at retail for off-premises consumption.

(a) Upon the filing of an application and payment of a fee of $25.00 by a bona fide nonprofit civic organization, the commissioner may issue a permit authorizing the organization to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises or to sell wine at retail for off-premises consumption, or both, for a period not to exceed three days, subject to any law regulating the time for selling such beverages.

(b) No more than six permits may be issued to an organization in any one calendar year pursuant to this Code section.

(c) Permits issued pursuant to this Code section shall be valid only for the place specified in the permit. No permit may be issued unless the sale of distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages is lawful in the place for which the permit is issued.

## History

Code 1933, § 5A-6303, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1573, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 4, § 1/HB 1243.

## Administrative Rules and Regulations

Alcoholic beverage license hearings, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Revenue, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit, Subject 560-2-9.