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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="1-408" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="General Licensing Regulation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person who manufactures, rectifies, blends, imports, distributes, transports, stores, warehouses, sells, or offers for sale alcoholic beverages or who holds a license to do those activities shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>keep complete and accurate records of all alcoholic beverages purchased, sold, manufactured, rectified, blended, improved, brewed, fermented, distilled, produced, stored, warehoused, withdrawn from storage, imported, or transferred;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>on written request of the Comptroller, report on the form that the Comptroller requires information relating to the alcoholic beverages that are the subject of the records required to be kept; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>on request of the Comptroller, make the report under oath.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, each license holder shall keep records at the location designated in the license.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the license holder is allowed to have more than one location, the license holder may keep the records at the principal location.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The records shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>meet form and content requirements of the Comptroller;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be preserved for at least 2 years in a manner that ensures permanency; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>be made available for audit or inspection during regular business hours by the Comptroller or an authorized employee of the Comptroller.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Comptroller may without a hearing immediately suspend for a maximum of 30 days the license of a license holder who fails to comply with this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A license suspended under this section is subject to an additional period of suspension or revocation after a hearing.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
