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Missouri Wine Regulations
RELEVANT TO MISSOURI GRAPES
190. Wine manufacturer’s license, fee – use
of materials produced outside the state, limitation, exception – what
sales may be made, when.
- For the privilege of manufacturing wine, which manufacturing
shall be in accordance with all provisions of federal law applicable
thereto except as may otherwise be specified in this section,
in quantities not to exceed five hundred thousand gallons, not
in excess of eighteen percent of alcohol by weight, from grapes,
berries, other fruits, fruit products, honey, and vegetables
produced or grown in the state of Missouri, exclusive of sugar,
water and spirits, there shall be paid to and collected by the
director of revenue, in lieu of charges provided in section 311.1801,
a license fee of five dollars for each five hundred gallons or
fraction thereof of wine produced up to a maximum license fee
of three hundred dollars.
- Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1, a manufacturer
licensed under this section may use in any calendar year such
wine-making material produced or grown outside the state of Missouri
in a quantity not exceeding fifteen percent of the manufacturer’s
wine entered into fermentation in the prior calendar year.
- In any year when a natural disaster causes substantial loss
to the Missouri crop of grapes, berries, other fruits, fruit
products, honey or vegetables from which wines are made, the
director of the department of agriculture shall determine the
percent of loss and allow a certain additional percent, based
on the prior calendar year’s production of such products,
to be purchased outside the state of Missouri to be used and
offered for sale by Missouri wineries.
554. Privilege of selling wine, additional revenue charge – purpose – limitation
on use of revenue – expires, when.
- In addition to the charges imposed by section 311.5502, there
shall be paid to and collected by the director of revenue for
the privilege of selling wine, an additional charge of six cents
per gallon or fraction thereof. The additional charge shall be
paid and collected in the same manner and at the same time that
the charges imposed by section 311.550 are paid and collected.
- The revenue derived from the additional charge imposed by subsection
1 shall be deposited by the state treasurer to the credit of
a separate account in the marketing development fund created
by section 216.035 RSMo. Moneys to the credit of the account
shall be appropriated annually for use by the division of the
sate department of agriculture concerned with market development
programs for growing, selling, and marketing of grapes and grape
products grown in Missouri, including all necessary funding and
programs aimed at improving marketing of all varieties of grapes
grown in Missouri, and shall be appropriated and used for no
other purpose.
1 Schedule of license fees for manufacturers, wholesalers, and
solicitors of "intoxicating liquors."
2 "For the privilege of selling wines, the sum of thirty
cents per gallon."
WINE REGULATIONS
275.463
- There is hereby created the "Missouri Wine Marketing and
Research Council" which shall consist of five members elected
by commercial producers. The members of the council shall be
citizens and residents of the state and shall be commercial producers.
Each member shall be elected for a term of three years, except
that of the members first elected, one shall be elected for a
term of one year, two shall be elected for a term of two years
and two shall be elected for a term of three years. Vacancies
in the council shall be filled for the unexpired term in the
same manner as original elections are made.
- All members may be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred
by them I the performance of their duties.
- The council shall:
- Provide a list of commercial producers of wine in this state
to the department of agriculture;
- Administer the Missouri wine marketing and research development
fund;
- Elect from among their membership a preside t, vice president,
and secretary-treasurer, whose duties shall be established
in the bylaws of the council;
- Draft and adopt bylaws of the council;
- Communicate with commercial producers in order to enhance
enology research, education and development of markets for
wine produced in Missouri;
- Perform any other duties deemed necessary to carry out the
functions described in this subsection.
275.464.
In addition to any other licenses and charges imposed by chapter
311, RSMo, there shall be collected by the director of the department
of agriculture and paid to the director of the department of revenue
for deposit in the Missouri win marketing and research development
fund an additional pro rata charge of three dollars per ton of
grapes or one hundred sixty gallons of grape juice processed by
commercial producers in this state. The charges shall be paid and
collected pursuant to sections 275.466 to 275.468.
275.466
The revenue derived from the additional charge imposed by section
275.464 shall be deposited by the director of the department of
revenue in the treasury to the credit of the "Missouri
Wine Marketing and Research Development Fund", which is hereby
created. Moneys in the fund shall be appropriated annually by the
general assembly through the department of agriculture for the
use and benefit of the Missouri wine marketing and research council.
Such moneys shall be specified in the annual appropriations of
the department of agriculture for the Missouri wine and marketing
research council and shall be transferred by the director of the
department of agriculture to the treasurer of the council, to be
used only for enology research, education and marketing of wine
produced in Missouri, except that the Missouri wine marketing and
research council shall reimburse the department of agriculture
for reasonable expenses incurred in collecting moneys for the fund.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, no portion
of the fund shall be transferred to the general revenue fund.
275.468.
Payment of the charges provided in sections 275.464 to 275.468
shall be made by each commercial producer in this state. Each commercial
producer, on or before the thirty-first day of January, shall file
with the director of the department of agriculture, on forms prescribed
and furnished by the director, a signed written report in duplicate,
in such form as is required by the director to enable the director
to compute, and assure the accuracy of, the charges due on all
grapes and grape juice processed during the preceding year. Payment
of the charges in the amount disclosed by the report shall accompany
the report.
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