2012 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 28-A: LIQUORS (HEADING: PL 1987, c. 45, Pt. A, @4 (new))
Chapter 57: CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL HOLDER AND MAINE WHOLESALE LICENSEE AGREEMENT ACT
28-A §1453. No dual distributorship

Part 3: LICENSES FOR SALE OF LIQUOR

Subpart 3: NON-RETAIL SALES

§1453. No dual distributorship

1. Dual distributorship prohibited. No certificate of approval holder who designates a sales territory for which a wholesale licensee is primarily responsible may enter into any agreement with any other wholesale licensee for the purpose of establishing an additional agreement for its brand or label in the same territory.

[ 1987, c. 45, Pt. A, §4 (NEW) .]

2. Certificate of approval holder to file list. Each certificate of approval holder shall file with his application for certificate of approval a list giving the name and address of each bottler and wholesale licensee authorized to distribute products of that certificate of approval holder and designating the exclusive territory assigned to each wholesale licensee within the State. Unless authorized by the bureau, wholesale licensees may not sell those products to licensees outside of the exclusive territory allocated and designated.

A. Sales of wine to retail licensees at the wholesale licensee's warehouse shall be considered a sale within the wholesale licensee's exclusive territory. [1987, c. 45, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]

3. Primary source of supply. No wholesale licensee may purchase liquor from anyone other than the primary source of supply within the United States.

[ 1987, c. 45, Pt. A, §4 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1987, c. 45, §A4 (NEW).