Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code
§ 109.62 — TEMPORARY RELOCATION OF DISTRIBUTOR OR WHOLESALER DURING EMERGENCY
AL § 109.62Title 4. REGULATORY AND PENAL PROVISIONS · Ch. 109. MISCELLANEOUS REGULATORY PROVISIONS · Art. D. OTHER MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section, "period of emergency" means a time during which weather, fire, earthquake, or other natural disaster, act of God, or catastrophe affects a distributor's or wholesaler's premises or an area of this state in a way that disrupts the distributor's or wholesaler's normal business operations to the extent that the business cannot receive deliveries at or make deliveries from the premises or perform necessary business operations at the premises.
(b)During a period of emergency, a distributor or wholesaler may temporarily operate all or part of the distributor's or wholesaler's business from an alternate location, including storing alcoholic beverages, maintaining required records, receiving alcoholic beverages from suppliers, dispatching orders intended for sale to authorized purchasers, and performing any other function the distributor or wholesaler is authorized by this code to perform at the licensed or permitted premises. The alternate location is considered the distributor's or wholesaler's licensed or permitted premises, as applicable, for the purposes of this code.
(c)A holder of one of the following permits or licenses may make deliveries to and pick up deliveries from the alternate location in the same manner as this code and commission rules provide for the distributor's or wholesaler's licensed or permitted premises:
(1)a distiller's and rectifier's permit;
(2)a winery permit;
(3)a wholesaler's permit;
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Legislative history
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1359 (H.B. 1545), Sec. 361, eff. September 1, 2021.