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90_HB0903enr

      235 ILCS 5/6-6            from Ch. 43, par. 123
          Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934.  Provides  that  a
      manufacturer  and  a distributor or importing distributor may
      enter into a written agreement for the manufacturer  to  sell
      to  the distributor or importing distributor certain signs or
      inside advertising materials. Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT in relation to alcoholic  liquor,  amending  named
 2    Acts.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Liquor Control Act of 1934 is amended  by
 6    changing Section 6-6 as follows:
 7        (235 ILCS 5/6-6) (from Ch. 43, par. 123)
 8        Sec.  6-6.   Except  as otherwise provided in this Act no
 9    manufacturer or distributor or importing  distributor  shall,
10    directly,  or  indirectly, sell, supply, furnish, give or pay
11    for, or loan or lease, any furnishing, fixture  or  equipment
12    on  the  premises  of a place of business of another licensee
13    authorized under this Act to sell alcoholic liquor at retail,
14    either for consumption on or off the premises, nor  shall  he
15    or  she, directly or indirectly, pay for any such license, or
16    advance, furnish, lend or give  money  for  payment  of  such
17    license,  or  purchase  or  become  the  owner  of  any note,
18    mortgage, or other evidence of indebtedness of such  licensee
19    or   any   form   of   security   therefor,  nor  shall  such
20    manufacturer,  or  distributor,  or  importing   distributor,
21    directly  or  indirectly,  be  interested  in  the ownership,
22    conduct  or  operation  of  the  business  of  any   licensee
23    authorized  to sell alcoholic liquor at retail, nor shall any
24    manufacturer, or distributor,  or  importing  distributor  be
25    interested  directly  or indirectly or as owner or part owner
26    of said premises or as  lessee  or  lessor  thereof,  in  any
27    premises upon which alcoholic liquor is sold at retail.
28        No  manufacturer  or distributor or importing distributor
29    shall, directly or indirectly  or  through  a  subsidiary  or
30    affiliate,  or  by  any  officer,  director  or  firm of such
31    manufacturer, distributor or importing distributor,  furnish,
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 1    give,  lend  or  rent, install, repair or maintain, to or for
 2    any retail licensee  in  this  State,  any  signs  or  inside
 3    advertising  materials except as provided in this Section and
 4    Section 6-5. With respect to retail licensees, other than any
 5    government owned or  operated  auditorium,  exhibition  hall,
 6    recreation  facility  or  other  similar  facility  holding a
 7    retailer's  license  as   described   in   Section   6-5,   a
 8    manufacturer,   distributor,  or  importing  distributor  may
 9    furnish, give, lend or rent and erect,  install,  repair  and
10    maintain  to  or  for any retail licensee, for use at any one
11    time in or about or in connection with a retail establishment
12    on which the products of  the  manufacturer,  distributor  or
13    importing  distributor  are  sold,  the  following  signs and
14    inside advertising materials as authorized in  subparts  (i),
15    (ii), (iii), and (iv):
16             (i)  Permanent outside signs shall be limited to one
17        outside  sign,  per brand, in place and in use at any one
18        time, costing not more than $893, exclusive of  erection,
19        installation,  repair  and  maintenance costs, and permit
20        fees and shall bear only the manufacturer's  name,  brand
21        name,  trade name, slogans, markings, trademark, or other
22        symbols commonly associated with and  generally  used  in
23        identifying the product.
24             (ii)  Temporary  outside  signs  shall be limited to
25        one  temporary  outside  sign  per  brand.   Examples  of
26        temporary outside signs  are  banners,  flags,  pennants,
27        streamers,   and   other   items   of   a  temporary  and
28        non-permanent nature.  Each temporary outside  sign  must
29        include  the manufacturer's name, brand name, trade name,
30        slogans, markings, trademark, or  other  symbol  commonly
31        associated  with  and  generally  used in identifying the
32        product.  Temporary outside signs may also  include,  for
33        example,  the product, price, packaging, date or dates of
34        a promotion and an announcement of  a  retail  licensee's
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 1        specific  sponsored  event, if the temporary outside sign
 2        is intended to promote a product, and provided  that  the
 3        announcement  of  the  retail  licensee's  event  and the
 4        product  promotion  are  held  simultaneously.   However,
 5        temporary outside signs may not include  names,  slogans,
 6        markings,  or logos that relate to the retailer.  Nothing
 7        in this subpart (ii)  shall  prohibit  a  distributor  or
 8        importing  distributor  from bearing the cost of creating
 9        or printing a  temporary  outside  sign  for  the  retail
10        licensee's  specific sponsored event  or from bearing the
11        cost of creating or  printing  a  temporary  sign  for  a
12        retail   licensee   containing,  for  example,  community
13        goodwill    expressions,    regional    sporting    event
14        announcements, or seasonal messages,  provided  that  the
15        primary  purpose  of  the  temporary  outside  sign is to
16        highlight,  promote,  or  advertise  the  product.     In
17        addition,   temporary   outside  signs  provided  by  the
18        manufacturer to the distributor or importing  distributor
19        may also include, for example, subject to the limitations
20        of    this   Section,   preprinted   community   goodwill
21        expressions,  sporting  event   announcements,   seasonal
22        messages,  and  manufacturer  promotional  announcements.
23        However, a distributor or importing distributor shall not
24        bear the cost of such manufacturer preprinted signs.
25             (iii)  Permanent  inside signs, whether visible from
26        the outside or the inside of the premises,  include,  for
27        example,  neons,  illuminated signs, clocks, table lamps,
28        mirrors, tap  handles,  decalcomanias,  window  painting,
29        window  trim,  and  spirits or wine lists and menus.  All
30        permanent inside signs in place and in  use  at  any  one
31        time  shall cost in the aggregate not more than $2000 per
32        manufacturer.   A  permanent inside sign must include the
33        manufacturer's name, brand  name,  trade  name,  slogans,
34        markings,  trademark, or other symbol commonly associated
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 1        with and  generally  used  in  identifying  the  product.
 2        However,  permanent  inside  signs may not include names,
 3        slogans, markings, or logos that relate to the  retailer.
 4        For  the  purpose  of  this  subpart (iii), all permanent
 5        inside signs may be displayed in an adjacent courtyard or
 6        patio commonly referred to as a "beer garden" that  is  a
 7        part of the retailer's licensed premises.
 8             (iv)  Temporary  inside  signs  shall   include, for
 9        example,  lighted  chalk  boards,  acrylic   table   tent
10        beverage  or  hors d'oeuvre list holders, banners, flags,
11        pennants, streamers,  and  inside  advertising  materials
12        such  as  posters, placards, bowling sheets, table tents,
13        inserts for acrylic table tent beverage or hors  d'oeuvre
14        list  holders,  sports  schedules,  or similar printed or
15        illustrated materials; however, such items, for  example,
16        as coasters, trays, napkins, and cups may not be provided
17        to  retailers.  All  temporary  inside  signs  and inside
18        advertising materials in place and in use at any one time
19        shall cost in  the  aggregate  not  more  than  $325  per
20        manufacturer.    Nothing in this subpart (iv) prohibits a
21        distributor or importing distributor from paying the cost
22        of printing or creating any temporary  inside  banner  or
23        inserts  for acrylic table tent beverage or hors d'oeuvre
24        list holders for a retail  licensee,  provided  that  the
25        primary purpose for the banner or insert is to highlight,
26        promote,  or  advertise  the product.  For the purpose of
27        this subpart (iv), all temporary inside signs and  inside
28        advertising  materials  may  be  displayed in an adjacent
29        courtyard or  patio  commonly  referred  to  as  a  "beer
30        garden"  that  is  a  part  of  the  retailer's  licensed
31        premises.
32        A  "cost adjustment factor" shall be used to periodically
33    update the dollar limitations  prescribed  in  subparts  (i),
34    (iii), and (iv).  The Commission shall establish the adjusted
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 1    dollar  limitation  on  an annual basis beginning in January,
 2    1997.  The term "cost adjustment factor" means  a  percentage
 3    equal  to  the  change  in  the  Bureau  of  Labor Statistics
 4    Consumer  Price  Index  or  5%,  whichever  is  greater.  The
 5    restrictions contained in this Section 6-6 do  not  apply  to
 6    signs,  or  promotional or advertising materials furnished by
 7    manufacturers, distributors or importing  distributors  to  a
 8    government  owned  or  operated facility holding a retailer's
 9    license as described in Section 6-5.
10        No distributor or importing distributor shall directly or
11    indirectly or through a subsidiary or affiliate,  or  by  any
12    officer,  director  or firm of such manufacturer, distributor
13    or  importing  distributor,  furnish,  give,  lend  or  rent,
14    install, repair or maintain, to or for any retail licensee in
15    this  State,   any  signs  or  inside  advertising  materials
16    described in subparts (i),  (ii),  (iii),  or  (iv)  of  this
17    Section   except   as  the  agent  for  or  on  behalf  of  a
18    manufacturer, provided that the total cost of any  signs  and
19    inside  advertising  materials  including  but not limited to
20    labor, erection, installation and permit fees shall  be  paid
21    by the manufacturer whose product or products said signs, and
22    inside advertising materials advertise and except as follows:
23        A  distributor or importing distributor may purchase from
24    or enter into a written agreement with a  manufacturer  or  a
25    manufacturer's  designated  supplier and such manufacturer or
26    the manufacturer's designated supplier may sell or enter into
27    an  agreement  to  sell  to  a   distributor   or   importing
28    distributor   permitted   signs   and  advertising  materials
29    described in subparts (ii), (iii), or (iv)  of  this  Section
30    for  the  purpose  of  furnishing,  giving, lending, renting,
31    installing,  repairing,  or   maintaining   such   signs   or
32    advertising  materials  to or for any retail licensee in this
33    State.   Any  purchase  by   a   distributor   or   importing
34    distributor   from   a   manufacturer   or  a  manufacturer's
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 1    designated supplier shall be voluntary and  the  manufacturer
 2    may  not require the distributor or the importing distributor
 3    to  purchase  signs  or  advertising   materials   from   the
 4    manufacturer or the manufacturer's designated supplier.
 5        A  distributor  or  importing distributor shall be deemed
 6    the owner of such signs or  advertising  materials  purchased
 7    from a manufacturer or a manufacturer's designated supplier.
 8        The  provisions of this amendatory Act of 1997 concerning
 9    signs or advertising materials delivered by a manufacturer to
10    a distributor or importing distributor shall  apply  only  to
11    signs  or  advertising  materials  delivered  on or after the
12    effective  date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of  1997   herein
13    provided.
14        No  person  engaged  in  the  business  of manufacturing,
15    importing or distributing alcoholic liquors  shall,  directly
16    or  indirectly,  pay  for, or advance, furnish, or lend money
17    for the payment of any license for another. Any licensee  who
18    shall  permit  or  assent,  or  be  a party in any way to any
19    violation or infringement of the provisions of  this  Section
20    shall  be  deemed  guilty of a violation of this Act, and any
21    money loaned contrary to a provision of this Act shall not be
22    recovered back, or any note, mortgage or  other  evidence  of
23    indebtedness,  or security, or any lease or contract obtained
24    or made contrary to this Act shall be unenforceable and void.
25        This  Section  shall  not  apply  to  airplane  licensees
26    exercising powers provided in paragraph (i) of Section 5-1 of
27    this Act.
28    (Source: P.A. 89-238, eff. 8-4-95; 89-529, eff. 7-19-96.)
29        Section 10.   The  Beer  Industry  Fair  Dealing  Act  is
30    amended by changing Sections 1.1 and 5 as follows:
31        (815 ILCS 720/1.1) (from Ch. 43, par. 301.1)
32        Sec. 1.1.  As used in this Act:
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 1        (1)  "Beer"  means  a  beverage obtained by the alcoholic
 2    fermentation of an infusion or concoction of barley, or other
 3    grain, malt, and hops in water,  and  includes,  among  other
 4    things,  beer,  ale,  stout, lager beer, porter and the like.
 5    For purposes of this Act only, the  term  "beer"  shall  also
 6    include  malt beverage products containing less than one-half
 7    of 1% of alcohol by volume and marketed for adult consumption
 8    as an alternative beverage to beer.
 9        (2)  "Agreement"  means  any  contract,   agreement,   or
10    arrangement,  whether  expressed  or implied, whether oral or
11    written, for a definite or indefinite period between a brewer
12    and a wholesaler pursuant to  which  a  wholesaler  has  been
13    granted  the  right  to  purchase,  resell, and distribute as
14    wholesaler or master distributor any brand or brands of  beer
15    offered  by  a  brewer.  The  agreement  between a brewer and
16    wholesaler shall not be considered a franchise relationship.
17        (3)  "Wholesaler" or "beer wholesaler" means any  person,
18    other  than  a manufacturer licensed under The Liquor Control
19    Act of 1934, who is engaged  in  this  State  in  purchasing,
20    storing,  possessing or warehousing any alcoholic liquors for
21    resale or reselling at wholesale, whether within  or  without
22    this State.
23        (4)  "Brewer"  means  a  person  who  is  engaged  in the
24    manufacture of beer, a master distributor as defined in  this
25    Section,  a  successor  brewer  as defined in this Section, a
26    non-resident  dealer  under  the  provisions  of  the  Liquor
27    Control Act of 1934, a foreign importer under the  provisions
28    of  the  Liquor  Control Act of 1934, or a person who owns or
29    controls the trademark, brand, or name of beer.
30        (5)  "Master Distributor" means a person who, in addition
31    to being a wholesaler, acts in the same or  similar  capacity
32    as  a  brewer or outside seller of one or more brands of beer
33    to other wholesalers on a regular basis in the normal  course
34    of business.
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 1        (6)  "Successor  Brewer"  means any person who in any way
 2    obtains the distribution  rights  that  a  brewer  or  master
 3    distributor  once had to manufacture or distribute a brand or
 4    brands of beer  whether  by  merger,  purchase  of  corporate
 5    shares, purchase of assets, or any other arrangement.
 6        (7)  "Person"   means   a  natural  person,  partnership,
 7    corporation,  trust,  agency,  or  other  form  of   business
 8    enterprise.  Person  also  includes  heirs, assigns, personal
 9    representatives and guardians.
10        (8)  "Territory"   or   "sales   territory"   means   the
11    geographic area of primary sales responsibility designated by
12    an agreement between a wholesaler and brewer for any brand or
13    brands of the brewer.
14        (9)  "Good cause" exists if the  wholesaler  or  affected
15    party  has  failed  to  comply  with essential and reasonable
16    requirements imposed upon the wholesaler or affected party by
17    the agreement.  The requirements may  not  be  discriminating
18    either  by their terms or in the methods of their enforcement
19    as compared with  requirements  imposed  on  other  similarly
20    situated wholesalers by the brewer.  The requirements may not
21    be  inconsistent  with this Act or in violation of any law or
22    regulation.
23        (10)  "Good  faith"  means  honesty  in  fact   and   the
24    observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing
25    in  the  trade as defined and interpreted under Section 2-103
26    of the Uniform Commercial Code.
27        (11)  "Reasonable  standards  and  qualifications"  means
28    those criteria applied by the brewer  to  similarly  situated
29    wholesalers  during a period of 24 months before the proposed
30    change in manager or successor manager  of  the  wholesaler's
31    business.
32        (12)  "Affected party" means a wholesaler, brewer, master
33    distributor,  successor brewer, or any person that is a party
34    to an agreement.
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 1        (13)  "Signs" means signs described in Section 6-6 of the
 2    Liquor Control Act of 1934.
 3        (14)  "Advertising materials" means advertising materials
 4    described in Section 6-6 of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.
 5    (Source: P.A. 88-410; 89-83, eff. 6-30-95.)
 6        (815 ILCS 720/5) (from Ch. 43, par. 305)
 7        Sec. 5. Prohibited conduct. No brewer shall:
 8             (1)  Induce or  coerce,  or  attempt  to  induce  or
 9        coerce,  any  wholesaler  to engage in any illegal act or
10        course of conduct either by threatening to amend, modify,
11        cancel, terminate,  or  refuse  to  renew  any  agreement
12        existing between the brewer and the wholesaler, or by any
13        other means.
14             (2)  Require   a   wholesaler   to   assent  to  any
15        unreasonable  requirement,  condition,  understanding  or
16        term  or  an  agreement  prohibiting  a  wholesaler  from
17        selling the product of any other brewer or brewers.
18             (3)  Directly or  indirectly  fix  or  maintain  the
19        price at which a wholesaler may resell beer.
20             (4)  Fail  to  provide  to  each  wholesaler  of its
21        brands a written contract  which  embodies  the  brewer's
22        agreement  with  its  wholesalers  and  conforms  to  the
23        provisions of this Act.
24             (5)  Require  any  wholesaler  to accept delivery of
25        any beer, signs, advertising materials, or any other item
26        or  commodity  which  has  not  been   ordered   by   the
27        wholesaler,  or require any wholesaler to accept a common
28        carrier for delivery of beer into this State  unless  the
29        wholesaler  consents to the common carrier.  In the event
30        a brewer adopts a uniform  practice  of  delivering  beer
31        into   this   State  to  the  premises  of  all  licensed
32        wholesalers, the brewer may select the common carrier  in
33        this State.
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 1             (6)  Require  a  wholesaler without the wholesaler's
 2        approval to participate in an arrangement for the payment
 3        or crediting by an electronic fund  transfer  transaction
 4        for  any item or commodity other than beer or to access a
 5        wholesaler's account for any item or commodity other than
 6        beer.
 7             (7)  Require  a  wholesaler   to   assent   to   any
 8        requirement  prohibiting  the  wholesaler from disposing,
 9        after notice to the brewer, of a product which  has  been
10        deemed  salvageable by a local or State health authority.
11        Nothing herein shall prohibit the brewer from having  the
12        first  right to purchase the salvageable product from the
13        wholesaler at a price not to exceed the original cost  of
14        the  product  or  to  subsequently repurchase the product
15        from the insurance company or salvage company.
16             (8)  Refuse to approve or require  a  wholesaler  to
17        terminate  a  manager  or  successor manager without good
18        cause.  A brewer  has  good  cause  only  if  the  person
19        designated   as  manager  or  successor  manager  by  the
20        wholesaler  fails  to  meet  reasonable   standards   and
21        qualifications.
22             (9)  Present  an  agreement  to  a  wholesaler  that
23        attempts  to  waive compliance with any provision of this
24        Act or that requires the wholesaler to  waive  compliance
25        with any provision of this Act.
26             (10)  Terminate or attempt to terminate an agreement
27        on  the  basis  that  the  wholesaler refuses to purchase
28        signs or advertising materials or any quantity  or  types
29        thereof.
30             (11)  Discriminate  against  a  wholesaler  who  has
31        entered  into a contract relative to signs or advertising
32        materials by not making signs or advertising materials or
33        any quantity or types thereof available to the wholesaler
34        when the brewer makes available such signs or advertising
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 1        materials to other similarly situated wholesalers in this
 2        State.
 3        No brewer who, pursuant to an agreement with a wholesaler
 4    which does not violate antitrust laws, has designated a sales
 5    territory for which the wholesaler is  primarily  responsible
 6    or  in  which  the  wholesaler is required to concentrate its
 7    efforts,  shall  enter  into  an  agreement  with  any  other
 8    wholesaler for the  purpose  of  establishing  an  additional
 9    wholesaler for the brewer's brand or brands in all or part of
10    the same territory.
11        No  wholesaler who, pursuant to an agreement is granted a
12    sales territory for which it shall be  primarily  responsible
13    or  in which it is required to concentrate its efforts, shall
14    make any sale or delivery of  beer  to  any  retail  licensee
15    whose  place  of business is not within the territory granted
16    to the wholesaler.
17    (Source: P.A. 88-410; 89-83, eff. 6-30-95.)
18        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
19    becoming law.

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