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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
2/19/2025

3VAC5-50-240. Alcoholic beverage displays.

Any establishment licensed to sell beer or wine for off-premises consumption and that displays beer and wine for sale outside of a clearly discernible location reserved for alcoholic beverage products shall (i) place no alcoholic beverages immediately adjacent to any nonalcoholic beverages containing the same or similar brand name, logo, or packaging and (ii) install additional signage on the shelving or the floor display to indicate that the product is an alcoholic beverage. Such signage shall be clearly visible to consumers and of sufficient size to notify the consumer of the alcohol contents of the product. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the sale and display of nonalcoholic beer or wine in the same display or near similarly branded alcoholic beer or wine products.

Statutory Authority

§§ 4.1-103 and 4.1-111 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 27, Issue 7, eff. January 20, 2011; amended, Virginia Register Volume 41, Issue 11, eff. February 12, 2025.

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