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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 3. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control
Agency 5. Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority
Chapter 50. Retail Operations
3/9/2025

3VAC5-50-200. Gift shops; wine and beer off-premises licenses; conditions; records; inspections.

The following restrictions and conditions apply to gift shop licensees:

1. Gift shop licenses shall be granted only to persons who have places of business that have been in operation for no less than 12 continuous months next preceding the filing of the application.

2. Gift shop licenses shall authorize the licensees to sell wine and beer that have been purchased from and received at the establishment from farm winery or wholesale licensees to sell such alcoholic beverages only within the interior premises of the gift shop in closed containers for off-premises consumption and to deliver or ship the same to purchasers thereof in accordance with Title 4.1 of the Code of Virginia and regulations of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (authority).

3. In granting licenses under this chapter, the authority may impose restrictions and conditions upon purchases and sales of wine and beer in accordance with this chapter or as may be deemed reasonable by the authority to ensure that the distribution of alcoholic beverages is orderly, lawful, and only incidental to the principal business of the licensee. In no event may the sale of such alcoholic beverages exceed 25% of total annual gross sales at the establishment.

4. Every person licensed to sell alcoholic beverages under this chapter shall comply with 3VAC5-70-90.

Statutory Authority

§ 4.1-111 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR125-01-5 § 20, eff. December 12, 1985; amended, Virginia Register Volume 4, Issue 6, January 21, 1988; Volume 5, Issue 2, eff. November 24, 1988; Volume 7, Issue 4, eff. December 19, 1990; Volume 8, Issue 6, eff. January 15, 1992; Volume 9, Issue 6, eff. January 13, 1993; Volume 10, Issue 11, eff. March 23, 1994; Volume 38, Issue 1, eff. January 1, 2022; Volume 41, Issue 11, eff. February 12, 2025.

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