Bill Text: WV HB4793 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to distilled liquor
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-22 - Chapter 8, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 [HB4793 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB4793-Enrolled.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
ENROLLED
House Bill 4793
By Delegates Smith, Hornby, Zatezalo, Riley, Hardy, Phillips, McGeehan, Chiarelli, Fehrenbacher, Bridges, and Westfall
[Passed March 9, 2024; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §60-6-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing a person to manufacture a stated amount of alcoholic liquor for personal consumption.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
§60-6-10. Unlawful operation of plant manufacturing distilled spirits; exception for personal consumption.
(a) A person who unlawfully owns, operates, or maintains a plant for the manufacture of distilled spirits, or aids or abets in the operation or maintenance of such a plant shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.
(b) Notwithstanding the restriction of subsection (a) of this section, a person at least 21 years of age may manufacture alcoholic liquor for personal or family use. The aggregate amount of alcoholic liquor manufactured per household may not exceed 10 gallons per calendar year, if there are two or more persons over the age of 21 years, or 5 gallons per calendar year, if there is only one person over the age of 21 years in the household. Any alcoholic liquor manufactured under this section may not be sold or offered for sale.
The Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate hereby certify that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.
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Clerk of the House of Delegates
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Clerk of the Senate
Originated in the House of Delegates.
In effect ninety days from passage.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates
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President of the Senate
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Governor
