Bill Text: AZ HB2317 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Arizona wines; labeling

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-30 - Chapter 112 [HB2317 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2015-HB2317-Chaptered.html

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Senate Engrossed House Bill

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

First Regular Session

2015

 

 

 

CHAPTER 112

 

HOUSE BILL 2317

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending Title 4, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 4-214; relating to wine labeling.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 4, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 4-214, to read:

START_STATUTE4-214.  Arizona wines; labeling

A.  A person licensed as a farm winery pursuant to section 4-205.04 or licensed as a producer pursuant to section 4-203 may label a wine offered for sale that states that the wine is any of the following:

1.  An Arizona wine or a wine from a particular county in this state, if at least seventy-five percent of the wine by volume is produced or manufactured from grapes or other fruit grown in this state and is fermented, processed, bottled and labeled in this state.

2.  A wine from a particular federally recognized viticultural area, if at least eighty-five percent of the wine by volume is produced or manufactured from grapes or other fruit grown in this state and is fermented, processed, bottled and labeled in this state.

3.  A wine from a particular vineyard, orchard, farm or ranch, if at least ninety-five percent of the wine by volume is produced or manufactured from grapes or other fruit grown in this state and is fermented, processed, bottled and labeled in this state.

4.  Estate bottled, if one hundred percent of the wine by volume is produced or manufactured from a winery in a particular federally recognized viticultural area in which all grapes or other fruit were grown, crushed, fermented, processed, aged and bottled in a continuous process, the wine at no time having left the premises of the bottling winery.

B.  A licensee that complies with subsection A of this section is not subject to criminal, civil or administrative action for a violation of section 4-244, paragraph 39. END_STATUTE

 

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MARCH 30, 2015.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCH 31, 2015.