Section 28-7-2

Legislative intent; purpose of chapter.

The public interest lying in the promotion of temperance by and through the proper regulation of alcoholic beverages, through the instrumentality of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and otherwise, it is the intent of the legislature and declared to be the purpose and intent of this chapter to promote temperance and to further regulate the sale of alcoholic beverages in the state by distinguishing between fortified wine or vinous liquor having more than 14.9 percent alcohol by volume and table wine having not more than 14.9 percent alcohol by volume, which is hereby declared to be nonliquor and not vinous liquor, and specifically to authorize and regulate the sale and handling of table wine in Alabama by wine manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers licensed by the board.

(Acts 1980, No. 80-382, p. 505, §2; Act 98–505, §1.)