Florida Statute 561.495 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XXXIV
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO

Chapter 561
BEVERAGE LAW: ADMINISTRATION

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F.S. 561.495

561.495 Legislative findings; cost of regulating imported beverages.—Effective July 1, 1988, the Legislature finds and determines that the authorized transportation and importation into the state of alcoholic beverages described in chapters 564 and 565 require strict enforcement of state statutes regulating and administering the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages; the costs of regulating and administering such imported alcoholic beverages are greater than for those alcoholic beverages not imported; the production of lower quality alcoholic beverages should be discouraged; and in order to protect the health, safety, welfare, and economic integrity of the state, the costs of ensuring compliance with relevant state laws should be included in the taxes imposed upon said alcoholic beverages.

History.—s. 9, ch. 88-308.

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Ivey v. BACARDI IMPORTS, CO., INC.

541 So. 2d 1129, 14 Fla. L. Weekly 129, 1989 Fla. LEXIS 201, 1989 WL 27659

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 23, 1989 | Docket: 1516497

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Section 9 of chapter 88-308, as codified in section 561.495, Florida Statutes (Supp. 1988), states the