93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6640

 

Introduced 02/09/04, by Lou Lang

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
815 ILCS 720/5   from Ch. 43, par. 305

    Amends the Beer Industry Fair Dealing Act. Deletes provisions that prohibit a brewer from presenting an agreement to a wholesaler requiring the wholesaler to arbitrate all disputes without offering the wholesaler in writing the opportunity to reject arbitration and elect to resolve all disputes by maintaining a civil suit in accordance with the Act. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning alcoholic liquor.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Beer Industry Fair Dealing Act is amended by
5 changing Section 5 as follows:
 
6     (815 ILCS 720/5)  (from Ch. 43, par. 305)
7     Sec. 5. Prohibited conduct. No brewer shall:
8         (1) Induce or coerce, or attempt to induce or coerce,
9     any wholesaler to engage in any illegal act or course of
10     conduct either by threatening to amend, modify, cancel,
11     terminate, or refuse to renew any agreement existing
12     between the brewer and the wholesaler, or by any other
13     means.
14         (2) Require a wholesaler to assent to any unreasonable
15     requirement, condition, understanding or term or an
16     agreement prohibiting a wholesaler from selling the
17     product of any other brewer or brewers.
18         (3) Directly or indirectly fix or maintain the price at
19     which a wholesaler may resell beer.
20         (4) Fail to provide to each wholesaler of its brands a
21     written contract which embodies the brewer's agreement
22     with its wholesalers and conforms to the provisions of this
23     Act.
24         (5) Require any wholesaler to accept delivery of any
25     beer, signs, advertising materials, or any other item or
26     commodity which has not been ordered by the wholesaler, or
27     require any wholesaler to accept a common carrier for
28     delivery of beer into this State unless the wholesaler
29     consents to the common carrier. In the event a brewer
30     adopts a uniform practice of delivering beer into this
31     State to the premises of all licensed wholesalers, the
32     brewer may select the common carrier in this State.

 

 

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1         (6) Require a wholesaler without the wholesaler's
2     approval to participate in an arrangement for the payment
3     or crediting by an electronic fund transfer transaction for
4     any item or commodity other than beer or to access a
5     wholesaler's account for any item or commodity other than
6     beer.
7         (7) Require a wholesaler to assent to any requirement
8     prohibiting the wholesaler from disposing, after notice to
9     the brewer, of a product which has been deemed salvageable
10     by a local or State health authority. Nothing herein shall
11     prohibit the brewer from having the first right to purchase
12     the salvageable product from the wholesaler at a price not
13     to exceed the original cost of the product or to
14     subsequently repurchase the product from the insurance
15     company or salvage company.
16         (8) Refuse to approve or require a wholesaler to
17     terminate a manager or successor manager without good
18     cause. A brewer has good cause only if the person
19     designated as manager or successor manager by the
20     wholesaler fails to meet reasonable standards and
21     qualifications.
22         (9) Present an agreement to a wholesaler that attempts
23     to waive compliance with any provision of this Act or that
24     requires the wholesaler to waive compliance with any
25     provision of this Act. No brewer shall induce or coerce, or
26     attempt to induce or coerce, any wholesaler to assent to
27     any agreement, amendment, renewal, or replacement
28     agreement that does not comply with this Act and the laws
29     of this State.
30         (10) Terminate or attempt to terminate an agreement on
31     the basis that the wholesaler refuses to purchase signs or
32     advertising materials or any quantity or types thereof.
33         (11) Discriminate against a wholesaler who has entered
34     into a contract relative to signs or advertising materials
35     by not making signs or advertising materials or any
36     quantity or types thereof available to the wholesaler when

 

 

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1     the brewer makes available such signs or advertising
2     materials to other similarly situated wholesalers in this
3     State.
4         (12) (Blank). Present an agreement requiring the
5     wholesaler to arbitrate all disputes without offering the
6     wholesaler in writing the opportunity to reject
7     arbitration and elect to resolve all disputes by
8     maintaining a civil suit in accordance with this Act.
9     No brewer who, pursuant to an agreement with a wholesaler
10 which does not violate antitrust laws, has designated a sales
11 territory for which the wholesaler is primarily responsible or
12 in which the wholesaler is required to concentrate its efforts,
13 shall enter into an agreement with any other wholesaler for the
14 purpose of establishing an additional wholesaler for the
15 brewer's brand or brands in all or part of the same territory.
16     No wholesaler who, pursuant to an agreement is granted a
17 sales territory for which it shall be primarily responsible or
18 in which it is required to concentrate its efforts, shall make
19 any sale or delivery of beer to any retail licensee whose place
20 of business is not within the territory granted to the
21 wholesaler.
22 (Source: P.A. 90-373, eff. 8-14-97; 91-247, eff. 7-22-99.)
 
23     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24 becoming law.