HB 1468 - FINAL VERSION
29jan98.....0393h
4/9/98 0969s
1998 SESSION
98-2588
09/08
HOUSE BILL 1468
AN ACT clarifying the legal status of home brewers of beer.
SPONSORS: Rep. MacGillivray, Hills 21; Rep. Avery, Ches 8; Rep. Wallin, Merr 15; Rep. A. Merrill, Straf 8; Sen. Cohen, Dist 24
COMMITTEE: Local and Regulated Revenues
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill allows persons to produce a limited amount of beer for personal or family use without a license from or payment of fees to the liquor commission. The bill permits such persons to remove beer from the premises where it was made for personal or family use for use at organized home brewing meetings, exhibitions, or competitions and for personal off-premises use.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
29jan98.....0393h
4/9/98 0969s
98-2588
09/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Eight
AN ACT clarifying the legal status of home brewers of beer.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Exemption from Liquor Laws; Production of Beer for Personal or Family Use. Amend RSA 175 by inserting after section 5-a the following new section:
175:5-b Production of Beer for Personal or Family Use.
I. Except as provided in this section, this title shall not apply to the production of beer by persons over 21 years of age for personal or family use, when such beer is not offered for sale or sold, when produced in the following aggregate amount per household:
(a) Not in excess of 200 gallons per calendar year if there are 2 or more persons producing beer in such household.
(b) Not in excess of 100 gallons per calendar year if there is only one person producing beer in such household.
II. It shall be unlawful for any person to produce beer for personal or family use in excess of the amounts permitted in paragraph I or to offer for sale or sell such beer.
III. Beer produced under the provisions of paragraph I may be removed from the premises where made for personal or family use for use at organized home brewing meetings, exhibitions, or competitions, such as homebrewer's contests, tastings, or judgings, and for personal off-premises use. Beer used under this paragraph shall not be sold or offered for sale.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.