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Public Act 91-0186

HB0335 Enrolled                                LRB9101376LDpk

    AN ACT to  amend  the  Liquor  Control  Act  of  1934  by
changing Section 6-17.1.

    Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5.  The Liquor Control Act of 1934 is amended  by
changing Section 6-17.1 as follows:

    (235 ILCS 5/6-17.1)
    Sec.  6-17.1.  Distributors;  sales  to  retailers.   The
General  Assembly  hereby  finds  and  declares  that for the
purposes of ensuring  that  all  retail  licensees  have  the
opportunity  to  receive  alcoholic liquor beer, reducing the
amount of spoiled and overaged alcoholic liquor beer sold  to
customers,  and  maintaining  the distribution system and the
State's ability to regulate against  illegal  importation  of
alcoholic   liquor   beer,   it   is   necessary  to  prevent
discrimination among retail licensees  as  provided  in  this
Section.
    A  distributor  or  importing distributor designated as a
distributor or importing  distributor  for  alcoholic  liquor
beer  within  a  designated  geographic  area  or areas under
Section 6-9 of this Act shall use its best  efforts  to  make
available  for  sale  to  retail licensees, in its designated
geographic area or areas, each brand of alcoholic liquor beer
which the distributor or the importing distributor  has  been
authorized to distribute. Nothing in this Section prohibits a
distributor   or   importing  distributor  from  establishing
purchase requirements unless the requirements have the effect
of excluding a  majority  of  the  retail  licensees  in  the
designated  geographic  area  or  areas  from  purchasing the
alcoholic liquor beer.
(Source: P.A. 88-645, eff. 9-9-94; 89-239, eff. 8-4-95.)

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