Sec. 04.09.460. Package store shipping endorsement.

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(a)A package store shipping endorsement authorizes the holder of a package store license to sell alcoholic beverages to a person who makes an order to that licensee for shipment.

(b)The biennial fee for a package store shipping endorsement is $200.

(c)An endorsement holder may ship alcoholic beverages only to the purchaser and may ship alcoholic beverages only in response to an order. The endorsement holder may not, in response to an order, ship alcohol to a purchaser at an address other than the address where the purchaser resides or, if the purchaser resides in a municipality or established village that has adopted a local option under AS 04.11.491 (a)(1), (2), or

(3)or (b)(1) or

(2)for which a community delivery site has been designated under AS 04.11.491 (f), to an address other than that community delivery site except as provided by AS 04.11.491 (f)(1) and (2).

(d)An endorsement holder shall provide written or electronic information on fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effects resulting from a woman's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy to the purchaser in response to an order.

(e)If a shipment is to an area that has restricted the sale of alcoholic beverages under AS 04.11.491 (a)(1), (2), or

(3)or (b)(1) or (2), an endorsement holder may not ship to a purchaser more than 10.5 liters of distilled spirits or 24 liters or more of wine, or either a half-barrel keg of brewed beverages or 12 gallons or more of brewed beverages in individual containers in a calendar month, or a lower amount of distilled spirits, wine, or brewed beverages if the municipality or established village has adopted the lower amount by local option under AS 04.11.491 (g). Before shipping alcohol to a purchaser in a restricted area, an endorsement holder shall consult the database maintained by the board under AS 04.06.095 for any alcoholic beverage shipments made to the purchaser during that calendar month by a package store. An endorsement holder may not ship an amount of alcoholic beverages to a purchaser in a restricted area that, when added to the amount already shipped, exceeds the amount authorized by this subsection. An endorsement holder shall immediately enter into the database the date and the amount of alcoholic beverages shipped to the purchaser.

(f)An endorsement holder may not divide or combine shipments of alcoholic beverages so as to circumvent the limitation imposed under

(e)of this section.

(g)In this section, “endorsement holder” means the holder of a package store license with a package store shipping endorsement, and an agent or employee of the holder of a package store license with a package store shipping endorsement.

(h)The holder of a package store license who ships alcoholic beverages without an endorsement under this section commits the offense of unendorsed package store shipping.

(i)The holder of a package store shipping endorsement who fails to comply with the requirements of

(c)—

(f)of this section commits the offense of package store shipping endorsement noncompliance.

(j)Unendorsed package store shipping is a violation and is punishable by a fine of $500.

(k)Package store shipping endorsement noncompliance is a violation.