Title 27 — Intoxicating Liquors
Chapter 8 — Federal Alcohol Administration Act
§ 203. Unlawful businesses without permit; application to State agency
Statutory text
In order effectively to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages, to enforce the twenty-first amendment, and to protect the revenue and enforce the postal laws with respect to distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages:
It shall be unlawful, except pursuant to a basic permit issued under this subchapter by the Secretary of the Treasury—
to engage in the business of importing into the United States distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages; or
for any person so engaged to sell, offer or deliver for sale, contract to sell, or ship, in interstate or foreign commerce, directly or indirectly or through an affiliate, distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages so imported.
It shall be unlawful, except pursuant to a basic permit issued under this subchapter by the Secretary of the Treasury—
to engage in the business of distilling distilled spirits, producing wine, rectifying or blending distilled spirits or wine, or bottling, or warehousing and bottling, distilled spirits; or
for any person so engaged to sell, offer or deliver for sale, contract to sell, or ship, in interstate or foreign commerce, directly or indirectly or through an affiliate, distilled spirits or wine so distilled, produced, rectified, blended, or bottled, or warehoused and bottled.
It shall be unlawful, except pursuant to a basic permit issued under this subchapter by the Secretary of the Treasury—
to engage in the business of purchasing for resale at wholesale distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages; or
for any person so engaged to receive or to sell, offer or deliver for sale, contract to sell, or ship, in interstate or foreign commerce, directly or indirectly or through an affiliate, distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages so purchased.
This subsection shall take effect .
This section shall not apply to any agency of a State or political subdivision thereof or any officer or employee of any such agency, and no such agency or officer or employee shall be required to obtain a basic permit under this subchapter.
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.
Federal Alcohol Administration Act
Pub. L. 74–814 · 49 Stat. 1597
Enacted · 27 U.S.C. § 203
Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 103, formerly § 3, 49 Stat. 978
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 103, formerly § 3, 49 Stat. 978Public Law not identified
Changed · 27 U.S.C. § 203(c)
Subsec. (c). Act Feb. 29, 1936, extended the effective date from March 1, 1936, to July 1, 1936
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (c). Act Feb. 29, 1936, extended the effective date from March 1, 1936, to July 1, 1936.Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
Pub. L. 100–690 § 8001(b)(2) · 102 Stat. 4181
Substituted · 27 U.S.C. § 203
Pub. L. 100–690, § 8001(b)(2), substituted “subchapter” for “chapter” wherever appearing
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 100–690, § 8001(b)(2), substituted “subchapter” for “chapter” wherever appearing.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(2) in sections 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, and 117, as so redesignated, 27 USC 203–205, 207–211. by striking “this Act” each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof “this title”;
1 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
In the original, subsections (a) and (b) of this section contained a final paragraph which provided as follows: “This subsection shall take effect sixty days after the date upon which the Administrator first appointed under this title takes office.”
Amendments1936–1988 · 2 rounds
1988
Pub. L. 100–690, § 8001(b)(2), substituted “subchapter” for “chapter” wherever appearing.
1936
Subsec. (c). Act , extended the effective date from , to .
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
“Secretary of the Treasury” was substituted in text for “Administrator”, meaning the Administrator of the Federal Alcohol Administration, pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, see note set out under section 201 of this title.
Credits
1935–1988 · 4 acts
- 1935Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 103, formerly § 3, 49 Stat. 978
- 1936Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 105, § 1, 49 Stat. 1152
- 19401940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 2, eff. , 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232
- 1988renumbered title I, § 103, and amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(1), (2), (b)(2), , 102 Stat. 4517, 4521.
Show as published
(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 103, formerly § 3, 49 Stat. 978; Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 105, § 1, 49 Stat. 1152; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 2, eff. , 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; renumbered title I, § 103, and amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(1), (2), (b)(2), , 102 Stat. 4517, 4521.)