The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXIV
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO

Chapter 564
WINE

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F.S. 564.03

564.03 Wines; sacramental and religious purposes.—

(1) For the purpose of this section the term “wine” is hereby defined to mean wine, vinous spirits, or vinous liquors.

(2) Any religious order, monastery, church or religious body, or any minister, pastor, priest, or rabbi thereof, may purchase wine for religious or sacramental purposes from any duly licensed wholesaler or retailer within the state, by obtaining a permit from the division for such purchases herein provided.

(3) The division shall issue said permit upon sworn application, stating the name of the applicant, the religious purpose for which the wine is to be used, the amount to be purchased, and from whom the purchase is to be made.

(4) The division for good cause may refuse to issue said permit.

(5) Said wine and the sale thereof, when sold as herein provided and used for religious or sacramental purposes, shall be exempt from all other restrictions, regulations, and taxation now provided by the laws of the state for the sale and distribution of wine.

History.—ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ch. 20978, 1941; s. 7, ch. 29964, 1955; ss. 16, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 4, ch. 72-230; s. 29, ch. 79-11.

Note.—Former s. 562.49.

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Amendments to 564.03

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 564.03

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 564.03.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

BENNING, v. GEORGIA,, 391 F.3d 1299 (11th Cir. 2004)

. . . . § 564.03(5); Ga.Code Ann. § 3-3-23; 235 Ill. Comp. Stat. . . .

BEST MOTOR AND IMPLEMENT COMPANY, v. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY,, 252 F.2d 278 (5th Cir. 1958)

. . . Its cash balance as of April 30, 1955, was $924.77, but with a simultaneous bank overdraft of $564.03 . . .

PHILADELPHIA BREWING CO. v. UNITED STATES, 27 F. Supp. 583 (Ct. Cl. 1939)

. . . . $564.03 income tax, and interest of $150.-01 paid for the calendar year 1933 less $1,-999, capital . . .

PHILADELPHIA BREWING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, v. THE UNITED STATES, 89 Ct. Cl. 297 (Ct. Cl. 1939)

. . . amount of $12,420.13 sued for represents the alleged overpayment of $13,705.09 excess-profits tax, and $564.03 . . .