27 U.S.C. § 211 — Miscellaneous provisions

(a) Definitions. As used in this subchapter: (1) "United States" means the several states, territories, and the District of Columbia; "State" includes a territory and the District of Columbia; "Territory" means Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. (2) "Interstate or foreign commerce" means commerce between any state and anywhere outside it, commerce within a territory or the District of Columbia, or commerce between two points in the same state that passes through somewhere else. (3) "Person" means an individual, partnership, joint stock company, business trust, association, corporation, or other business — including a receiver, trustee, or liquidating agent, and including an officer or employee of a state agency or political subdivision; "trade buyer" means any person who is a wholesaler or retailer. (4) "Affiliate" means either of two or more persons if one of them has actual or legal control, directly or indirectly, whether by stock ownership or otherwise, of the other — or any of two or more persons under common actual or legal control that way. (5) "Distilled spirits" means ethyl alcohol, hydrated oxide of ethyl, spirits of wine, whiskey, rum, brandy, gin, and other distilled spirits, including all dilutions and mixtures of them, for non-industrial use. (6) "Wine" means wine as defined in sections 610 and 617 of the Revenue Act of 1918, as currently in force or later amended, plus other alcoholic beverages not defined there but made in the manner of wine — including sparkling and carbonated wine, wine made from condensed grape must, wine made from farm products other than the juice of sound, ripe grapes, imitation wine, compounds sold as wine, vermouth, cider, perry, and sake — but only when they contain not less than 7 percent and not more than 24 percent alcohol by volume, and are for non-industrial use. (7) "Malt beverage" means a beverage made by alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or decoction, or a combination of both, in potable brewing water, of malted barley with hops or their parts or products, with or without other malted cereals, with or without added unmalted or prepared cereals or other carbohydrates or products made from them, with or without added carbon dioxide, and with or without other wholesome products suitable for human food consumption. (8) "Bottle" means any container, whatever material it's made of, used for selling distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages at retail. (b) Right to amend or repeal. The right to amend or repeal any provision of this subchapter is expressly reserved. (c) Separability. If a court finds any provision of this subchapter invalid, or finds it invalid as applied to a particular person or circumstance, the rest of the subchapter, and that provision as applied to other people or circumstances, remains valid and unaffected.