2006 Code of Virginia § 4.1-130 - Importation of beverages not under customs or internal revenue bonds; storage in approved warehouse...

4.1-130. Importation of beverages not under customs or internal revenuebonds; storage in approved warehouses; release.

A. Notwithstanding the provisions of 4.1-310, alcoholic beverages not underUnited States customs bonds or internal revenue bonds may be transported intoand stored in the Commonwealth in warehouses which have been approved by theBoard for that purpose.

The Board may refuse to approve any warehouse as a place where alcoholicbeverages may be stored if it has reasonable cause to believe that the owneror operator of the warehouse is a person to whom or the place sought to beapproved is one for which the Board may refuse to grant a license under theprovisions of 4.1-222, which shall apply mutatis mutandis, unless theprovisions of such section are inapplicable.

The Board may disapprove any warehouse which has been approved as a placewhere alcoholic beverages may be stored if it has reasonable cause to believethat a ground exists for which the Board may suspend or revoke a licenseunder the provisions of 4.1-225, which shall apply mutatis mutandis, unlessthe provisions of such section are inapplicable.

B. Alcoholic beverages stored in warehouses in the Commonwealth pursuant tothis section shall be released only on permits issued by the Board fordelivery to the Board or to persons entitled to receive them within oroutside the Commonwealth.

(1962, c. 200, 4-84.1; 1993, c. 866.)