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Ala. Code § 28-4-200 (2026)

Possession of Certain Quantities of State Tax-Paid Alcoholic Beverages for Private Use Permitted; Storage, Possession, Etc., of Alcoholic Beverages in Passenger Area of Vehicles or in View of Passengers.

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Any person 19 years of age or over shall be entitled to have in his possession in his motor vehicle or a private residence or place of private residence or the curtilage thereof in any dry county in this state for his own private use and not for resale not more than the following quantity of alcoholic beverages, as enumerated and defined in Section 28-3-1, when such beverages have been sold or distributed by and through a state liquor store operated by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board or a licensee of such board, and the containers of such beverages have affixed thereto such mark or identification and sufficient revenue stamps as to show that such alcoholic beverages were sold or distributed by a state liquor store or a licensee of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and that the required tax has been paid: three quarts of liquor and one case of malt or brewed beverages or three quarts of wine and one case of malt or brewed beverages; provided, however, that no alcoholic beverages shall be kept, stored or possessed in the passenger area of any vehicle or in the view of any passenger.

(Acts 1971, No. 1265, p. 2194, §1.)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1981–1992 · leading case: Jones v. State, 401 So. 2d 322 (Ala. Crim. App. 1981).
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Jones v. State, 401 So. 2d 322 (Ala. Crim. App. 1981). · cites it 6× “Appellant next contends that § 28-4-200 of the Code of Alabama (1975), the violation of which is a misdemeanor, should have been the statute controlling rather than § 28-4r-115, which is a felony because the liquor being transported was “Alabama tax-paid” and therefore not…”
Leverette v. State, 594 So. 2d 731 (Ala. Crim. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “Section 28-4-201, provides that: “(a) It shall be unlawful for any person residing in or traveling through any dry county in this state to sell or offer to sell such alcoholic beverages to another or to have in his possession at any one time any amount of alcoholic beverages in…”
Bryan v. State, 398 So. 2d 404 (Ala. Crim. App. 1981). · cites it 3× “His motion for a new trial was overruled.”
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