Title 27 — Intoxicating Liquors
Chapter 6 — Transportation in Interstate Commerce
§ 121. State statutes as operative on termination of transportation; original packages
Statutory text
All fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors or liquids transported into any State or Territory or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquids or liquors had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 51–728 · 26 Stat. 313
Enacted · 27 U.S.C. § 121
(Aug. 8, 1890, ch. 728, 26 Stat. 313.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 8, 1890, ch. 728, 26 Stat. 313.)
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Act , is popularly known as the “Wilson Act” or the “Original Packages Act”.
Credits
(Aug. 8, 1890, ch. 728, 26 Stat. 313.)