Iowa Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
Iowa · Alcoholic Beverage Control · §§ 123.1 to 123.99 · 157 sections
Overview
The act regulates alcoholic liquor, wine, and beer — their manufacture, transportation, delivery, and sale — opening with a declared statement of public policy and vesting rulemaking authority in an alcoholic beverage commission whose members and employees are barred from certain interests in the trade. Its central mechanism is a permit and licensing regime for beer, organized into classes with their own application, issuance, and fee requirements, extended to higher-alcohol beer and canned cocktails, and reinforced by brewers' certificates of compliance, limits tied to separate business locations, a per-barrel tax, and recordkeeping duties covering barrel-sales reports, keg identification labeling, and records of shipments in transit and of deliveries made. Enforcement rests on paired criminal and civil tools: provisions on venue, evidence, pleading, witnesses, and repeat convictions on the criminal side, and judgment liens, seizure of unlawfully held liquor for delivery to the sheriff, destruction of what is seized, and immunity protections for those acting under the act on the civil side.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 100 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 146 Vt. 513 - Langle v. Kurkul
Sections covered
- Iowa Code § 123.1Public policy declared17 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.10Rules
- Iowa Code § 123.100Packages in transit
- Iowa Code § 123.101Record of shipments
- Iowa Code § 123.102Inspection of shipping records
- Iowa Code § 123.103Record and certification upon delivery
- Iowa Code § 123.104Unlawful delivery
- Iowa Code § 123.105Immunity from damage
- Iowa Code § 123.106Federal statutes
- Iowa Code § 123.107Unnecessary allegations
- Iowa Code § 123.108Second conviction defined
- Iowa Code § 123.109Record of conviction
- Iowa Code § 123.11Compensation and expenses
- Iowa Code § 123.110Proof of sale3 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.111Purchaser as witness
- Iowa Code § 123.112Peace officer as witness
- Iowa Code § 123.113Judgment lien1 cite
- Iowa Code § 123.114Enforcement of lien
- Iowa Code § 123.115Defense
- Iowa Code § 123.116Right to receive alcoholic liquor, wine, or beer
- Iowa Code § 123.117Delivery to sheriff
- Iowa Code § 123.118Destruction
- Iowa Code § 123.119Evidence
- Iowa Code § 123.12Exemption from suit
- Iowa Code § 123.120Attempt to destroy
- Iowa Code § 123.121Venue
- Iowa Code § 123.122Beer certificate, permit, or license required — exception for personal use
- Iowa Code § 123.124Beer permits — classes
- Iowa Code § 123.125Issuance of beer permits
- Iowa Code § 123.126High alcoholic content beer — applicability
- Iowa Code § 123.126ACanned cocktails — applicability — manufacture
- Iowa Code § 123.127Class “A” and special class “A” beer permit application and issuance
- Iowa Code § 123.13Prohibitions on commission members and employees
- Iowa Code § 123.130Authority under class “A” and special class “A” beer permits
- Iowa Code § 123.134Beer permit fees
- Iowa Code § 123.135Brewer’s certificate of compliance — penalties
- Iowa Code § 123.136Barrel tax
- Iowa Code § 123.137Report of barrel sales — penalty
- Iowa Code § 123.138Records required — keg identification label
- Iowa Code § 123.139Separate locations — class “A” or special class “A” beer permit
- Iowa Code § 123.14Alcoholic beverage control law enforcement
- Iowa Code § 123.141Keeping liquor where beer is sold
- Iowa Code § 123.142Unlawful sale and importation
- Iowa Code § 123.143Distribution of funds — barrel tax fund created1 cite
- Iowa Code § 123.145Labels on bottles, barrels, etc. — conclusive evidence
- Iowa Code § 123.15Favors from licensee or permittee
- Iowa Code § 123.16Annual report
- Iowa Code § 123.17Beer and liquor control fund — allocations to substance use disorder programs — use of civil penalties
- Iowa Code § 123.171Wine certificate, permit, or license required — exceptions for personal use
- Iowa Code § 123.173Wine permit — class “A” — authority
- Iowa Code § 123.173ACharity beer, spirits, and wine special event license
- Iowa Code § 123.173CWine auction permit
- Iowa Code § 123.174Issuance of wine permits
- Iowa Code § 123.175Class “A” wine permit application and issuance
- Iowa Code § 123.176Native wines
- Iowa Code § 123.177Authority under class “A” wine permit
- Iowa Code § 123.179Wine permit and license fees
- Iowa Code § 123.18Appropriations. Department appropriations for purposes of this chapter shall be paid by the treasurer of state upon the orders of the director, in such amounts and at such times as the director deems necessary to carry on operations in accordance with the terms of this chapter
- Iowa Code § 123.180Vintner’s certificate of compliance — wholesale and retail restrictions — penalties
- Iowa Code § 123.181Prohibited credit sales
- Iowa Code § 123.182Labels — point of origin — conclusive evidence
- Iowa Code § 123.183Wine gallonage tax and related funds
- Iowa Code § 123.184Report of gallonage sales — penalty
- Iowa Code § 123.186Federal regulations adopted as rules — penalties
- Iowa Code § 123.187Direct shipment of wine — permit and requirements
- Iowa Code § 123.188Wine carrier — permit and requirements
- Iowa Code § 123.2General prohibition1 cite
- Iowa Code § 123.22State monopoly1 cite
- Iowa Code § 123.23Distiller’s certificate of compliance — injunction — penalty
- Iowa Code § 123.24Alcoholic liquor sales by the department — dishonored payments — liquor prices
- Iowa Code § 123.25Consumption on premises
- Iowa Code § 123.26Restrictions on sales — seals — labeling
- Iowa Code § 123.27Sales and deliveries prohibited
- Iowa Code § 123.28Restrictions on transportation2 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.29Patent and proprietary products and sacramental wine
- Iowa Code § 123.3Definitions8 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.30Retail alcohol licenses — classes2 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.31Retail alcohol licenses — application
- Iowa Code § 123.31AAuthority under class “B”, class “C”, special class “C”, and class “E” retail alcohol license
- Iowa Code § 123.31BAuthority under special class “B” retail native wine license
- Iowa Code § 123.31CAuthority under special class “C” retail native wine license
- Iowa Code § 123.32Action by local authorities and department on applications for retail alcohol licenses, native distilled spirits licenses, and wine and beer permits2 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.33Records
- Iowa Code § 123.34Seasonal, fourteen-day, and five-day licenses — fees
- Iowa Code § 123.35Expiration of licenses, permits, and certificates of compliance — automatic renewals
- Iowa Code § 123.36Retail alcohol license fees1 cite
- Iowa Code § 123.37Exclusive power to license and levy taxes — disputed taxes
- Iowa Code § 123.38Nature of permit or license — surrender — transfer1 cite
- Iowa Code § 123.38AConfidential investigative records
- Iowa Code § 123.39Suspension or revocation of license or permit — civil penalty4 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.4Alcoholic beverage control
- Iowa Code § 123.40Effect of revocation1 cite
- Iowa Code § 123.41Manufacturer’s license — alcoholic liquor
- Iowa Code § 123.42Broker’s permit
- Iowa Code § 123.43Class “A” native distilled spirits license — application and issuance — fees
- Iowa Code § 123.43ANative distilleries
- Iowa Code § 123.44Gifts prohibited
- Iowa Code § 123.45General limitations on business interests — licensing of native breweries2 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.46Consumption or intoxication in public places — notifications — chemical tests — expungement10 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.46ADelivery of alcoholic beverages by retailers
- Iowa Code § 123.47Persons under eighteen years of age, persons eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years of age, and persons twenty-one years of age and older15 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.47APersons age eighteen, nineteen, and twenty — penalty. Repealed by
- Iowa Code § 123.47BParental and school notification — persons under eighteen years of age
- Iowa Code § 123.48Seizure of false or altered driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card
- Iowa Code § 123.49Miscellaneous prohibitions22 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.49ARestriction on alcoholic beverages containing tetrahydrocannabinol
- Iowa Code § 123.5Alcoholic beverages commission created — appointment — removal — vacancies1 cite
- Iowa Code § 123.50Criminal and civil penalties5 cites
- Iowa Code § 123.50AAlcohol compliance employee training program
- Iowa Code § 123.51Advertisements for alcoholic liquor, wine, or beer
- Iowa Code § 123.52Prohibited sale
- Iowa Code § 123.56Public safety nuisances — procedure
- Iowa Code § 123.57Examination of accounts
- Iowa Code § 123.58Auditing
- Iowa Code § 123.59Bootlegging — penalties
- Iowa Code § 123.6Commission meetings
- Iowa Code § 123.60Nuisances
- Iowa Code § 123.61Penalty
- Iowa Code § 123.62Injunction
- Iowa Code § 123.63Temporary writ
- Iowa Code § 123.64Notice
- Iowa Code § 123.65Scope of injunction
- Iowa Code § 123.66Trial of action
- Iowa Code § 123.67General reputation
- Iowa Code § 123.68Contempt
- Iowa Code § 123.69Trial of contempt action
- Iowa Code § 123.7Duties of director
- Iowa Code § 123.70Injunction against bootlegger
- Iowa Code § 123.71Conditions on injunction proceeding
- Iowa Code § 123.72Order of abatement of nuisance
- Iowa Code § 123.73Use of abated premises
- Iowa Code § 123.74Fees
- Iowa Code § 123.75Proceeds of sale
- Iowa Code § 123.76Abatement of nuisance
- Iowa Code § 123.77Abatement before judgment
- Iowa Code § 123.78Existing liens
- Iowa Code § 123.79Abatement bond a lien
- Iowa Code § 123.8Duties of commission
- Iowa Code § 123.80Attested copies filed
- Iowa Code § 123.81Forfeiture of bond
- Iowa Code § 123.82Procedure
- Iowa Code § 123.83Method of trial
- Iowa Code § 123.84Judgment
- Iowa Code § 123.85Appeal
- Iowa Code § 123.86County attorney to prosecute
- Iowa Code § 123.87Prompt service
- Iowa Code § 123.88Evidence
- Iowa Code § 123.89Counts
- Iowa Code § 123.9Powers of director
- Iowa Code § 123.90Penalties generally
- Iowa Code § 123.91Second and subsequent conviction
- Iowa Code § 123.92Civil liability for dispensing or sale and service of any alcoholic beverage (Dramshop Act) — liability insurance — underage persons
- Iowa Code § 123.93Limitation of action
- Iowa Code § 123.94Inurement of action prohibited
- Iowa Code § 123.95Premises must be licensed — exception as to conventions and social gatherings
- Iowa Code § 123.98Labeling shipments
- Iowa Code § 123.99False statements
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