Florida Senate - 2013                              CS for SB 658
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senators Simpson,
       Ring, Brandes, Evers, Joyner, Hays, and Thompson
       
       
       
       580-02038-13                                           2013658c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to wine; amending s. 564.05, F.S.;
    3         providing additional allowable capacity for individual
    4         containers of wine sold in this state; providing an
    5         effective date.
    6  
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    8  
    9         Section 1. Section 564.05, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   10  read:
   11         564.05 Limitation of size of individual wine containers;
   12  penalty.—It is unlawful for any person to sell within this state
   13  any wine in individual containers holding more than 1 gallon of
   14  such wine. or reusable containers of 5.16 gallons of such wine.
   15  However, provided, that qualified distributors and manufacturers
   16  may sell to other qualified distributors or manufacturers such
   17  wine in any size containers. Any person convicted of a violation
   18  of this section commits shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the
   19  second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.
   20  775.083.
   21         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.