(235 ILCS 5/5-3) (from Ch. 43, par. 118)
Sec. 5-3. License fees. Except as otherwise provided herein, at the time application is made to the State Commission for a license of any class, the applicant shall pay to the State Commission the fee hereinafter provided for the kind of license applied for.
The fee for licenses issued by the State Commission shall be as follows:
For a manufacturer's license:
Class 1. Distiller ...................$3,600
Class 2. Rectifier ...................3,600
Class 3. Brewer .....................900
Class 4. First-class Wine Manufacturer ......600
Class 5. Second-class
Wine Manufacturer .................1,200
Class 6. First-class wine-maker ..........600
Class 7. Second-class wine-maker ..........1200
Class 8. Limited Wine Manufacturer.........120
Class 9. Craft Distiller................ 1,800
Class 10. Craft Brewer.................25
For a Brew Pub License ................1,050
For a caterer retailer's license..........200
For a foreign importer's license ..........25
For an importing distributor's license ......25
For a distributor's license .............270
For a non-resident dealer's license
(500,000 gallons or over) ............270
For a non-resident dealer's license
(under 500,000 gallons) .............90
For a wine-maker's premises license ........100
For a winery shipper's license
(under 250,000 gallons)..............150
For a winery shipper's license
(250,000 or over, but under 500,000 gallons).500
For a winery shipper's license
(500,000 gallons or over)............1,000
For a wine-maker's premises license,
second location ..................350
For a wine-maker's premises license,
third location ...................350
For a retailer's license ...............500
For a special event retailer's license,
(not-for-profit) ..................25
For a special use permit license,
one day only ....................50
2 days or more ...................100
For a railroad license ................60
For a boat license ...................180
For an airplane license, times the
licensee's maximum number of aircraft
in flight, serving liquor over the
State at any given time, which either
originate, terminate, or make
an intermediate stop in the State ......60
For a non-beverage user's license:
Class 1 .......................24
Class 2 .......................60
Class 3 .......................120
Class 4 .......................240
Class 5 .......................600
For a broker's license ................600
For an auction liquor license ............50
For a homebrewer special event permit....... 25
Fees collected under this Section shall be paid into the Dram Shop Fund. On and after July 1, 2003, of the funds received for a retailer's license, in addition to the first $175, an additional $75 shall be paid into the Dram Shop Fund, and $250 shall be paid into the General Revenue Fund. Beginning June 30, 1990 and on June 30 of each subsequent year through June 29, 2003, any balance over $5,000,000 remaining in the Dram Shop Fund shall be credited to State liquor licensees and applied against their fees for State liquor licenses for the following year. The amount credited to each licensee shall be a proportion of the balance in the Dram Fund that is the same as the proportion of the license fee paid by the licensee under this Section for the period in which the balance was accumulated to the aggregate fees paid by all licensees during that period.
No fee shall be paid for licenses issued by the State Commission to the following non-beverage users:
(a) Hospitals, sanitariums, or clinics when their use
of alcoholic liquor is exclusively medicinal, mechanical or scientific.
(b) Universities, colleges of learning or schools
when their use of alcoholic liquor is exclusively medicinal, mechanical or scientific.
(c) Laboratories when their use is exclusively for
the purpose of scientific research.
(Source: P.A. 97-5, eff. 6-1-11; 98-55, eff. 7-5-13.)
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