Sec. 30-68m. Retail permittees; sales below cost prohibited.
Sec. 30-68m. Retail permittees; sales below cost prohibited. (a) No retail permittee shall sell at a price below his cost. For the purposes of this section, cost for the
retail permittee for alcoholic liquor other than beer shall mean the posted bottle price
from the wholesaler plus any charge for shipping or delivery to the retailer's place of
business paid by the retailer in addition to the posted price, except on items of wine sold
prior to January 1, 1983, cost shall mean the posted bottle price from the wholesaler
plus a minimum of thirty-three and one-third per cent of such permittee's selling price.
For beer, cost for the retail permittee shall mean the lowest posted price during the
month in which the retail permittee is selling plus any charge for shipping or delivery
to the retailer's place of business paid by the retail permittee in addition to the price
originally paid by the retail permittee. As used in this section, the term retail permittee
means the holder of a permit allowing the sale of alcoholic liquor for off-premises
consumption.
(b) "Bottle price" means the price per unit of the contents of any case of alcoholic
liquor, other than beer, and shall be arrived at by dividing the case price by the number
of units or bottles making up such case price and adding to the quotient an amount that
is not less than the following: A unit or bottle one-half pint or two hundred milliliters
or less, two cents; a unit or bottle more than one-half pint or two hundred milliliters but
not more than one pint or five hundred milliliters, four cents; and a unit or bottle greater
than one pint or five hundred milliliters, eight cents.
(P.A. 81-294, S. 3, 22; P.A. 82-332, S. 6, 13; P.A. 93-139, S. 62; P.A. 05-240, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 82-332 amended section to limit application to holders of off-premises permits; P.A. 93-139 deleted a
provision in Subsec. (b) which had allowed permittees to offer discounts on wine sold by the case prior to January 1, 1983,
substituting definition of "bottle price"; P.A. 05-240 amended Subsec. (a) to differentiate "cost for the retail permittee"
for beer, effective July 1, 2005.