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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="2-124" title_number="2" title_name="State-Issued Permits and Licenses" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Permits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a nonresident dealer’s permit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Executive Director may issue the permit to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a bottler, brewer, distiller, manufacturer, rectifier, vintner, or winery;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a sales agent of a person described in item (1) of this subsection, on presentation of proof of the sales agency relationship to the Executive Director;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>an importer of beer, wine, or distilled spirits produced outside the United States that purchases directly from the brand owner or from a sales agent of a person described in item (1) of this subsection that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is authorized by the brand owner to sell in the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provides proof of the sales agency relationship to the Executive Director; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>an American sales agent of an importer described in item (3) of this subsection, on presentation of proof of the sales agency relationship to the Executive Director.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Executive Director may not issue the permit to a person that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is a holder of a wholesaler’s license or retail license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has an interest in a wholesaler licensed under this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>has an interest in any retail license holder.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The permit authorizes the holder to sell beer, wine, or distilled spirits to license holders authorized to receive the beverages.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The permit holder may sell, consign, or deliver from a location outside the State to a person in the State that is authorized to receive them those beers, wines, or distilled spirits that the permit holder:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>bottles, distills, imports, manufactures, produces, or rectifies from outside the United States; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>represents as the designated sales agent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A person who is a bottler, a brewer, a distiller, an importer, a manufacturer, a rectifier, a vintner, or a winery or the designated agent of the person may not discriminate directly or indirectly in price between license holders.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, the permit holder may continue to sell, consign, or deliver a brand of beer in the State from outside the State:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to a person in the State who may receive the beer under this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>until the person who is the brewer or importer of that brand of beer or the person’s designated sales agent preempts the sales territory by appointing a franchise license holder in accordance with the Beer Franchise Fair Dealing Act under Title 5, Subtitle 1 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, a permit is not required to make direct sales and shipments to a wholesaler in the State from a location outside the continental limits and possessions of the United States.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>The permit fee is $200.</text>
  </level>
</section>
