Florida Statutes Title XXXIV Chapter 562 - Beverage Law: Enforcement

• 562.01 - Possession Of Untaxed Beverages.
  It is unlawful for any person to own, possess, purchase, sell, serve, distribute, or store any alcoholic beverages unless said person has fully complied with...
• 562.02 - Possession Of Beverage Not Permitted To Be Sold Under License.
  It is unlawful for a licensee under the Beverage Law or his or her agent to have in his or her possession, or permit anyone...
• 562.025 - Possession Of Beverages As Food Ingredients.
  This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit the owner or employee of a public food service establishment from possessing or using alcoholic beverages manufactured...
• 562.03 - Storage On Licensed Premises.
  It is unlawful for any vendor to store or keep any alcoholic beverages except for the personal consumption of the vendor, the vendor’s family and...
• 562.06 - Sale Only On Licensed Premises.
  Each license application shall describe the location of the place of business where such beverage may be sold. It is unlawful to sell, or permit...
• 562.061 - Misrepresentation Of Beverages Sold On Licensed Premises.
  It is unlawful for any licensee, his or her agent or employee knowingly to sell or serve any beverage represented or purporting to be an...
• 562.07 - Illegal Transportation Of Beverages.
  It is unlawful for alcoholic beverages to be transported in quantities of more than 12 bottles except as follows:(1) By common carriers;(2) In the owned or leased...
• 562.11 - Selling, Giving, Or Serving Alcoholic Beverages To Person Under Age 21; Providing A Proper Name; Misrepresenting Or Misstating Age Or Age Of Another To Induce Licensee To Serve Alcoholic Beverages To Person Under 21; Penalties.
  (1)(a)1. A person may not sell, give, serve, or permit to be served alcoholic beverages to a person under 21 years of age or permit a...
• 562.111 - Possession Of Alcoholic Beverages By Persons Under Age 21 Prohibited.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years, except a person employed under the provisions of s. 562.13 acting in the...
• 562.12 - Beverages Sold With Improper License, Or Without License Or Registration, Or Held With Intent To Sell Prohibited.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person to sell alcoholic beverages without a license, and it is unlawful for any licensee to sell alcoholic beverages except...
• 562.121 - Operating Bottle Club Without License Prohibited.
  It is unlawful for any person to operate a bottle club without the license required by s. 561.14(6). Any person convicted of a violation of...
• 562.13 - Employment Of Minors Or Certain Other Persons By Certain Vendors Prohibited; Exceptions.
  (1) Unless otherwise provided in this section, it is unlawful for any vendor licensed under the Beverage Law to employ any person under 18 years of...
• 562.131 - Solicitation For Sale Of Alcoholic Beverage Prohibited; Penalty.
  (1) It is unlawful for any licensee, his or her employee, agent, servant, or any entertainer employed at the licensed premises or employed on a contractual...
• 562.14 - Regulating The Time For Sale Of Alcoholic And Intoxicating Beverages; Prohibiting Use Of Licensed Premises.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided by county or municipal ordinance, no alcoholic beverages may be sold, consumed, served, or permitted to be served or consumed in...
• 562.15 - Unlawful Possession; Unpaid Taxes.
  It is unlawful for any person to own or possess within this state any alcoholic beverage, unless full compliance has been had with the pertinent...
• 562.16 - Possession Of Beverages Upon Which Tax Is Unpaid.
  Any person or corporation who shall own or have in her or his or its possession any beverage upon which a tax is imposed by...
• 562.165 - Production Of Beer Or Wine For Personal Or Family Use; Exemption.
  (1) Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary, a person who is not prohibited by s. 562.111 from possessing alcoholic beverages may produce beer for personal or...
• 562.17 - Collection Of Unpaid Beverage Taxes.
  Any excise tax imposed by the Beverage Law may be collected as any other excise tax imposed by the state, and all rights and remedies...
• 562.18 - Possession Of Beverage Upon Which Federal Tax Unpaid.
  It is unlawful for any person to have in her or his possession within this state any alcoholic beverage on which a federal excise tax...
• 562.20 - Monthly Reports By Common And Other Carriers Of Beverages Required.
  (1) All common carriers of freight operating in the state shall file monthly reports with the division on forms to be prepared by the division which...
• 562.23 - Conspiracy To Violate Beverage Law; Penalty.
  If two or more persons shall conspire to do any act which is in violation of any of the provisions of the Beverage Law, and...
• 562.24 - Administration Of Oaths By Director Or Authorized Employees.
  The director and authorized employees of the division may administer oaths or affirmations on statements of defendants charged with the violation of the Beverage Law...
• 562.25 - State Bonded Warehouses.
  (1) No operator of any storage warehouse shall accept for storage in such warehouse any alcoholic beverage subject to tax under the Beverage Law until such...
• 562.26 - Delivering Beverage On Which Tax Unpaid.
  It is unlawful for any storage warehouse operator to deliver any beverages subject to tax under the Beverage Law and on which the tax has...
• 562.27 - Seizure And Forfeiture.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person to have in her or his possession, custody, or control, or to own, make, construct, or repair, any still,...
• 562.28 - Possession Of Beverages In Fraud Of Beverage Law.
  All beverages on which taxes are imposed by the Beverage Law or would be imposed if such beverages were manufactured in or brought into this...
• 562.29 - Raw Materials And Personal Property; Seizure And Forfeiture.
  All raw materials found in the possession of any person intending to manufacture the same into a beverage subject to tax under the Beverage Law,...
• 562.30 - Possession Of Beverage Prima Facie Evidence; Exception.
  The possession by any person, except a licensed manufacturer or distributor, a state bonded warehouse, or a common carrier, of any beverage which is taxable...
• 562.31 - Possession Of Raw Materials Prima Facie Evidence; Exception.
  The possession by any person, except a licensed manufacturer or distributor, a state bonded warehouse, or a common carrier, of any mash, wort, or wash,...
• 562.32 - Moving Or Concealing Beverage With Intent To Defraud State Of Tax; Penalty.
  Every person who removes, deposits, or conceals, or is concerned in removing, depositing, or concealing any beverage for or in respect whereof any tax is...
• 562.33 - Beverage And Personal Property; Seizure And Forfeiture.
  Whenever any beverage on which any tax is imposed by the Beverage Law or would be imposed if such beverage were manufactured in or brought...
• 562.34 - Containers; Seizure And Forfeiture.
  (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to have in her or his possession, custody, or control any cans, jugs, jars, bottles, vessels, or any...
• 562.35 - Conveyance; Seizure And Forfeiture.
  Every vehicle, vessel, or aircraft used in the transportation or removal of, or for the deposit or concealment of, any mash, wort, or wash or...
• 562.36 - Beverage On Conveyance Prima Facie Evidence; Proviso.
  The presence, in any conveyance or place, of any beverage upon which a tax is imposed by the Beverage Law or would be imposed if...
• 562.38 - Report Of Seizures.
  Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police officer, upon the seizure of any property under this act, shall promptly report such seizure to the division or...
• 562.408 - Exercise Of Police Power.
  It is deemed by the Legislature that this law is necessary for the more efficient and proper enforcement of the statutes and laws of this...
• 562.41 - Searches; Penalty.
  (1) Any authorized employee of the division, any sheriff, any deputy sheriff, or any police officer may make searches of persons, places, and conveyances of any...
• 562.42 - Destruction Of Forfeited Property.
  In case of the seizure of any intoxicating beverage, still, doubler, worm, worm tub, still piping, still apparatus or any piece or part thereof, any...
• 562.44 - Donation Of Forfeited Beverages Or Raw Materials To State Institutions; Sale Of Forfeited Beverages.
  Any alcoholic beverage or raw materials used for the manufacture of alcoholic beverages that may be seized and forfeited under any of the provisions of...
• 562.45 - Penalties For Violating Beverage Law; Local Ordinances; Prohibiting Regulation Of Certain Activities Or Business Transactions; Requiring Nondiscriminatory Treatment; Providing Exceptions.
  (1) Any person willfully and knowingly making any false entries in any records required under the Beverage Law or willfully violating any of the provisions of...
• 562.451 - Moonshine Whiskey; Ownership, Possession, Or Control Prohibited; Penalties; Rule Of Evidence.
  (1) Any person who owns or has in her or his possession or under her or his control less than 1 gallon of liquor, as defined...
• 562.452 - Curb Service Of Intoxicating Liquor Prohibited.
  It is unlawful for any person to sell or serve, by the drink, any intoxicating liquor, other than malt beverages of legal alcoholic content, except...
• 562.453 - Curb Drinking Of Intoxicating Liquor Prohibited.
  It is unlawful for any person to consume any intoxicating liquor, except malt beverages of legal alcoholic content, at curb or drive-in stands, except within...
• 562.454 - Vendors To Be Closed In Time Of Riot.
  (1) Whenever any riot or gathering of a mob occurs in any area of this state, all persons in the area who sell alcoholic beverages shall,...
• 562.455 - Adulterating Liquor; Penalty.
  Whoever adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any liquor, used or intended for drink, with cocculus indicus, vitriol, grains of paradise, opium, alum, capsicum, copperas,...
• 562.46 - Legal Remedies Not Impaired.
  It is the declared legislative intention that no provision or provisions of the Beverage Law shall in any manner limit, modify, or preclude any person...
• 562.47 - Rules Of Evidence; Beverage Law.
  In all prosecutions for violations of the Beverage Law:(1) Proof that the liquor in question was and is known as whiskey, moonshine whiskey, shine, rum, gin,...
• 562.48 - Minors Patronizing, Visiting, Or Loitering In A Dance Hall.
  Any person operating any dance hall in connection with the operation of any place of business where any alcoholic beverage is sold who shall knowingly...
• 562.50 - Habitual Drunkards; Furnishing Intoxicants To, After Notice.
  Any person who shall sell, give away, dispose of, exchange, or barter any alcoholic beverage, or any essence, extract, bitters, preparation, compound, composition, or any...
• 562.51 - Retail Alcoholic Beverage Establishments; Rights As Private Enterprise.
  A licensed retail alcoholic beverage establishment open to the public is a private enterprise and:(1) May refuse service to any person who is objectionable or undesirable...
• 562.61 - Sale, Offer For Sale, Purchase, Or Use Of Alcohol Vaporizing Devices Prohibited.
  (1) For purposes of this section, the term “alcohol vaporizing device” means any device, machine, or process which mixes spirits, liquor, or other alcohol products with...

Last modified: September 23, 2016