§ 37-515. Packaging, marking, branding and labeling of alcoholic beverages.  


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  • The Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations with respect to packaging, marking, branding and labeling of alcoholic beverages sold or possessed for sale within this state, including such rules and regulations:

    1.  As will prohibit deception of the consumer with respect to such products or the quantity thereof and as will prohibit, irrespective of falsity, such statement relating to age, manufacturing processes, analyses, guarantees, and scientific or irrelevant matter as the ABLE Commission finds likely to mislead or confuse the consumer;

    2.  As will provide the consumer with adequate information as to the identity and quality of the products, the net contents of the package, and the manufacturer or importer of the product; and

    3.  As will prohibit statements on the label that are false, misleading, obscene, or indecent.

    The ABLE Commission may adopt, in whole or in part, or with such modification as it deems desirable, regulations of the federal government relating to labeling of distilled spirits promulgated under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act (27 U.S.C.  205).

Amended by Laws 1985, c. 6, § 16, emerg. eff. March 14, 1985.