27 U.S.C. § 121 — State statutes as operative on termination of transportation; original packages

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Alcohol shipped into a state becomes subject to that state's laws as soon as it arrives. This is true even if the alcohol stays sealed in its original container. States can regulate it just as if it had been made there.

Once alcohol — fermented, distilled, or otherwise intoxicating — arrives in a state or territory (whether it's being used, sold, stored, or just passing through), that state or territory's own laws apply to it, exactly as they would if the alcohol had been made there. This includes laws the state passes using its police powers. It doesn't matter that the alcohol is still in its original sealed packaging, or shipped some other way — being in an original package doesn't exempt it from state law.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

All fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors or liquids transported into any State or Territory or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquids or liquors had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.

Source credit: (Aug. 8, 1890, ch. 728, 26 Stat. 313.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1890Enacted · Act of Aug. 8, 1890, ch. 728 · 26 Stat. 313

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 728 on 1890-08-08.

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