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Four grocery chain stores in the county have grandfathered alcohol licenses. [34] The regulatory agency is Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS). Dorchester County was an alcohol control county until 2008, when the County Council voted to permanently close the county-owned liquor dispensaries, with subsequent change in the state law ...
In 1933 the 18th Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Previously, the Eighteenth Amendment had outlawed alcohol in the US in 1919 and led to Prohibition in 1920.) Section 2 of the Twenty-first Amendment specifies that the power to control alcohol resides with the states, leaving each state to ...
*The sale, handling, transport, or service in dispensing of any alcoholic beverage pursuant to lawful ownership of an establishment or to lawful employment of a person under twenty-one years of age by a duly licensed manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer of beverage alcohol. Maine: N/A: 21 [8] 1969: Lowered to 20: 1972: Lowered to 18 [14] 1977:
Motor vehicles entering from Mexico may only import 1 liter of alcohol (duty-free). Sale or distribution of grain alcohol higher than 60% ABV is illegal (legal if it is sold by a pharmacy or drug store to a person with a prescription), but there is no upper limit for other distilled liquors (B&P 23403). [21] [22]
The amendment banned production, sale and transportation of liquor; but consumption was allowed. One year after ratification, on January 17, 1920, Prohibition began.
The Cullen–Harrison Act, named for its sponsors, Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Thomas H. Cullen, enacted by the United States Congress on March 21, 1933, and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt the following day, legalized the sale in the United States of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% (by weight) and wine of similarly low alcohol content, thought to be too low to be ...
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