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 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 903
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  903  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  in relation to alcoholic liquor, amending named
 5    Acts."; and
 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:
 8        "Section 5.  The Liquor Control Act of 1934 is amended by
 9    changing Section 6-6 as follows:
10        (235 ILCS 5/6-6) (from Ch. 43, par. 123)
11        Sec.  6-6.   Except  as otherwise provided in this Act no
12    manufacturer or distributor or importing  distributor  shall,
13    directly,  or  indirectly, sell, supply, furnish, give or pay
14    for, or loan or lease, any furnishing, fixture  or  equipment
15    on  the  premises  of a place of business of another licensee
16    authorized under this Act to sell alcoholic liquor at retail,
17    either for consumption on or off the premises, nor  shall  he
18    or  she, directly or indirectly, pay for any such license, or
19    advance, furnish, lend or give  money  for  payment  of  such
20    license,  or  purchase  or  become  the  owner  of  any note,
21    mortgage, or other evidence of indebtedness of such  licensee
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 1    or   any   form   of   security   therefor,  nor  shall  such
 2    manufacturer,  or  distributor,  or  importing   distributor,
 3    directly  or  indirectly,  be  interested  in  the ownership,
 4    conduct  or  operation  of  the  business  of  any   licensee
 5    authorized  to sell alcoholic liquor at retail, nor shall any
 6    manufacturer, or distributor,  or  importing  distributor  be
 7    interested  directly  or indirectly or as owner or part owner
 8    of said premises or as  lessee  or  lessor  thereof,  in  any
 9    premises upon which alcoholic liquor is sold at retail.
10        No  manufacturer  or distributor or importing distributor
11    shall, directly or indirectly  or  through  a  subsidiary  or
12    affiliate,  or  by  any  officer,  director  or  firm of such
13    manufacturer, distributor or importing distributor,  furnish,
14    give,  lend  or  rent, install, repair or maintain, to or for
15    any retail licensee  in  this  State,  any  signs  or  inside
16    advertising  materials except as provided in this Section and
17    Section 6-5. With respect to retail licensees, other than any
18    government owned or  operated  auditorium,  exhibition  hall,
19    recreation  facility  or  other  similar  facility  holding a
20    retailer's  license  as   described   in   Section   6-5,   a
21    manufacturer,   distributor,  or  importing  distributor  may
22    furnish, give, lend or rent and erect,  install,  repair  and
23    maintain  to  or  for any retail licensee, for use at any one
24    time in or about or in connection with a retail establishment
25    on which the products of  the  manufacturer,  distributor  or
26    importing  distributor  are  sold,  the  following  signs and
27    inside advertising materials as authorized in  subparts  (i),
28    (ii), (iii), and (iv):
29             (i)  Permanent outside signs shall be limited to one
30        outside  sign,  per brand, in place and in use at any one
31        time, costing not more than $893, exclusive of  erection,
32        installation,  repair  and  maintenance costs, and permit
33        fees and shall bear only the manufacturer's  name,  brand
34        name,  trade name, slogans, markings, trademark, or other
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 1        symbols commonly associated with and  generally  used  in
 2        identifying the product.
 3             (ii)  Temporary  outside  signs  shall be limited to
 4        one  temporary  outside  sign  per  brand.   Examples  of
 5        temporary outside signs  are  banners,  flags,  pennants,
 6        streamers,   and   other   items   of   a  temporary  and
 7        non-permanent nature.  Each temporary outside  sign  must
 8        include  the manufacturer's name, brand name, trade name,
 9        slogans, markings, trademark, or  other  symbol  commonly
10        associated  with  and  generally  used in identifying the
11        product.  Temporary outside signs may also  include,  for
12        example,  the product, price, packaging, date or dates of
13        a promotion and an announcement of  a  retail  licensee's
14        specific  sponsored  event, if the temporary outside sign
15        is intended to promote a product, and provided  that  the
16        announcement  of  the  retail  licensee's  event  and the
17        product  promotion  are  held  simultaneously.   However,
18        temporary outside signs may not include  names,  slogans,
19        markings,  or logos that relate to the retailer.  Nothing
20        in this subpart (ii)  shall  prohibit  a  distributor  or
21        importing  distributor  from bearing the cost of creating
22        or printing a  temporary  outside  sign  for  the  retail
23        licensee's  specific sponsored event  or from bearing the
24        cost of creating or  printing  a  temporary  sign  for  a
25        retail   licensee   containing,  for  example,  community
26        goodwill    expressions,    regional    sporting    event
27        announcements, or seasonal messages,  provided  that  the
28        primary  purpose  of  the  temporary  outside  sign is to
29        highlight,  promote,  or  advertise  the  product.     In
30        addition,   temporary   outside  signs  provided  by  the
31        manufacturer to the distributor or importing  distributor
32        may also include, for example, subject to the limitations
33        of    this   Section,   preprinted   community   goodwill
34        expressions,  sporting  event   announcements,   seasonal
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 1        messages,  and  manufacturer  promotional  announcements.
 2        However, a distributor or importing distributor shall not
 3        bear the cost of such manufacturer preprinted signs.
 4             (iii)  Permanent  inside signs, whether visible from
 5        the outside or the inside of the premises,  include,  for
 6        example,  neons,  illuminated signs, clocks, table lamps,
 7        mirrors, tap  handles,  decalcomanias,  window  painting,
 8        window  trim,  and  spirits or wine lists and menus.  All
 9        permanent inside signs in place and in  use  at  any  one
10        time  shall cost in the aggregate not more than $2000 per
11        manufacturer.   A  permanent inside sign must include the
12        manufacturer's name, brand  name,  trade  name,  slogans,
13        markings,  trademark, or other symbol commonly associated
14        with and  generally  used  in  identifying  the  product.
15        However,  permanent  inside  signs may not include names,
16        slogans, markings, or logos that relate to the  retailer.
17        For  the  purpose  of  this  subpart (iii), all permanent
18        inside signs may be displayed in an adjacent courtyard or
19        patio commonly referred to as a "beer garden" that  is  a
20        part of the retailer's licensed premises.
21             (iv)  Temporary  inside  signs  shall   include, for
22        example,  lighted  chalk  boards,  acrylic   table   tent
23        beverage  or  hors d'oeuvre list holders, banners, flags,
24        pennants, streamers,  and  inside  advertising  materials
25        such  as  posters, placards, bowling sheets, table tents,
26        inserts for acrylic table tent beverage or hors  d'oeuvre
27        list  holders,  sports  schedules,  or similar printed or
28        illustrated materials; however, such items, for  example,
29        as coasters, trays, napkins, and cups may not be provided
30        to  retailers.  All  temporary  inside  signs  and inside
31        advertising materials in place and in use at any one time
32        shall cost in  the  aggregate  not  more  than  $325  per
33        manufacturer.    Nothing in this subpart (iv) prohibits a
34        distributor or importing distributor from paying the cost
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 1        of printing or creating any temporary  inside  banner  or
 2        inserts  for acrylic table tent beverage or hors d'oeuvre
 3        list holders for a retail  licensee,  provided  that  the
 4        primary purpose for the banner or insert is to highlight,
 5        promote,  or  advertise  the product.  For the purpose of
 6        this subpart (iv), all temporary inside signs and  inside
 7        advertising  materials  may  be  displayed in an adjacent
 8        courtyard or  patio  commonly  referred  to  as  a  "beer
 9        garden"  that  is  a  part  of  the  retailer's  licensed
10        premises.
11        A  "cost adjustment factor" shall be used to periodically
12    update the dollar limitations  prescribed  in  subparts  (i),
13    (iii), and (iv).  The Commission shall establish the adjusted
14    dollar  limitation  on  an annual basis beginning in January,
15    1997.  The term "cost adjustment factor" means  a  percentage
16    equal  to  the  change  in  the  Bureau  of  Labor Statistics
17    Consumer  Price  Index  or  5%,  whichever  is  greater.  The
18    restrictions contained in this Section 6-6 do  not  apply  to
19    signs,  or  promotional or advertising materials furnished by
20    manufacturers, distributors or importing  distributors  to  a
21    government  owned  or  operated facility holding a retailer's
22    license as described in Section 6-5.
23        No distributor or importing distributor shall directly or
24    indirectly or through a subsidiary or affiliate,  or  by  any
25    officer,  director  or firm of such manufacturer, distributor
26    or  importing  distributor,  furnish,  give,  lend  or  rent,
27    install, repair or maintain, to or for any retail licensee in
28    this  State,   any  signs  or  inside  advertising  materials
29    described in subparts (i),  (ii),  (iii),  or  (iv)  of  this
30    Section   except   as  the  agent  for  or  on  behalf  of  a
31    manufacturer, provided that the total cost of any  signs  and
32    inside  advertising  materials  including  but not limited to
33    labor, erection, installation and permit fees shall  be  paid
34    by the manufacturer whose product or products said signs, and
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 1    inside advertising materials advertise and except as follows:
 2        A  distributor or importing distributor may purchase from
 3    or enter into a written agreement with a  manufacturer  or  a
 4    manufacturer's  designated  supplier and such manufacturer or
 5    the manufacturer's designated supplier may sell or enter into
 6    an  agreement  to  sell  to  a   distributor   or   importing
 7    distributor   permitted   signs   and  advertising  materials
 8    described in subparts (ii), (iii), or (iv)  of  this  Section
 9    for  the  purpose  of  furnishing,  giving, lending, renting,
10    installing,  repairing,  or   maintaining   such   signs   or
11    advertising  materials  to or for any retail licensee in this
12    State.   Any  purchase  by   a   distributor   or   importing
13    distributor   from   a   manufacturer   or  a  manufacturer's
14    designated supplier shall be voluntary and  the  manufacturer
15    may  not require the distributor or the importing distributor
16    to  purchase  signs  or  advertising   materials   from   the
17    manufacturer or the manufacturer's designated supplier.
18        A  distributor  or  importing distributor shall be deemed
19    the owner of such signs or  advertising  materials  purchased
20    from a manufacturer or a manufacturer's designated supplier.
21        The  provisions of this amendatory Act of 1997 concerning
22    signs or advertising materials delivered by a manufacturer to
23    a distributor or importing distributor shall  apply  only  to
24    signs  or  advertising  materials  delivered  on or after the
25    effective  date  of  this  amendatory  Act  of  1997   herein
26    provided.
27        No  person  engaged  in  the  business  of manufacturing,
28    importing or distributing alcoholic liquors  shall,  directly
29    or  indirectly,  pay  for, or advance, furnish, or lend money
30    for the payment of any license for another. Any licensee  who
31    shall  permit  or  assent,  or  be  a party in any way to any
32    violation or infringement of the provisions of  this  Section
33    shall  be  deemed  guilty of a violation of this Act, and any
34    money loaned contrary to a provision of this Act shall not be
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 1    recovered back, or any note, mortgage or  other  evidence  of
 2    indebtedness,  or security, or any lease or contract obtained
 3    or made contrary to this Act shall be unenforceable and void.
 4        This  Section  shall  not  apply  to  airplane  licensees
 5    exercising powers provided in paragraph (i) of Section 5-1 of
 6    this Act.
 7    (Source: P.A. 89-238, eff. 8-4-95; 89-529, eff. 7-19-96.)
 8        Section 10.   The  Beer  Industry  Fair  Dealing  Act  is
 9    amended by changing Sections 1.1 and 5 as follows:
10        (815 ILCS 720/1.1) (from Ch. 43, par. 301.1)
11        Sec. 1.1.  As used in this Act:
12        (1)  "Beer"  means  a  beverage obtained by the alcoholic
13    fermentation of an infusion or concoction of barley, or other
14    grain, malt, and hops in water,  and  includes,  among  other
15    things,  beer,  ale,  stout, lager beer, porter and the like.
16    For purposes of this Act only, the  term  "beer"  shall  also
17    include  malt beverage products containing less than one-half
18    of 1% of alcohol by volume and marketed for adult consumption
19    as an alternative beverage to beer.
20        (2)  "Agreement"  means  any  contract,   agreement,   or
21    arrangement,  whether  expressed  or implied, whether oral or
22    written, for a definite or indefinite period between a brewer
23    and a wholesaler pursuant to  which  a  wholesaler  has  been
24    granted  the  right  to  purchase,  resell, and distribute as
25    wholesaler or master distributor any brand or brands of  beer
26    offered  by  a  brewer.  The  agreement  between a brewer and
27    wholesaler shall not be considered a franchise relationship.
28        (3)  "Wholesaler" or "beer wholesaler" means any  person,
29    other  than  a manufacturer licensed under The Liquor Control
30    Act of 1934, who is engaged  in  this  State  in  purchasing,
31    storing,  possessing or warehousing any alcoholic liquors for
32    resale or reselling at wholesale, whether within  or  without
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 1    this State.
 2        (4)  "Brewer"  means  a  person  who  is  engaged  in the
 3    manufacture of beer, a master distributor as defined in  this
 4    Section,  a  successor  brewer  as defined in this Section, a
 5    non-resident  dealer  under  the  provisions  of  the  Liquor
 6    Control Act of 1934, a foreign importer under the  provisions
 7    of  the  Liquor  Control Act of 1934, or a person who owns or
 8    controls the trademark, brand, or name of beer.
 9        (5)  "Master Distributor" means a person who, in addition
10    to being a wholesaler, acts in the same or  similar  capacity
11    as  a  brewer or outside seller of one or more brands of beer
12    to other wholesalers on a regular basis in the normal  course
13    of business.
14        (6)  "Successor  Brewer"  means any person who in any way
15    obtains the distribution  rights  that  a  brewer  or  master
16    distributor  once had to manufacture or distribute a brand or
17    brands of beer  whether  by  merger,  purchase  of  corporate
18    shares, purchase of assets, or any other arrangement.
19        (7)  "Person"   means   a  natural  person,  partnership,
20    corporation,  trust,  agency,  or  other  form  of   business
21    enterprise.  Person  also  includes  heirs, assigns, personal
22    representatives and guardians.
23        (8)  "Territory"   or   "sales   territory"   means   the
24    geographic area of primary sales responsibility designated by
25    an agreement between a wholesaler and brewer for any brand or
26    brands of the brewer.
27        (9)  "Good cause" exists if the  wholesaler  or  affected
28    party  has  failed  to  comply  with essential and reasonable
29    requirements imposed upon the wholesaler or affected party by
30    the agreement.  The requirements may  not  be  discriminating
31    either  by their terms or in the methods of their enforcement
32    as compared with  requirements  imposed  on  other  similarly
33    situated wholesalers by the brewer.  The requirements may not
34    be  inconsistent  with this Act or in violation of any law or
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 1    regulation.
 2        (10)  "Good  faith"  means  honesty  in  fact   and   the
 3    observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing
 4    in  the  trade as defined and interpreted under Section 2-103
 5    of the Uniform Commercial Code.
 6        (11)  "Reasonable  standards  and  qualifications"  means
 7    those criteria applied by the brewer  to  similarly  situated
 8    wholesalers  during a period of 24 months before the proposed
 9    change in manager or successor manager  of  the  wholesaler's
10    business.
11        (12)  "Affected party" means a wholesaler, brewer, master
12    distributor,  successor brewer, or any person that is a party
13    to an agreement.
14        (13)  "Signs" means signs described in Section 6-6 of the
15    Liquor Control Act of 1934.
16        (14)  "Advertising materials" means advertising materials
17    described in Section 6-6 of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.
18    (Source: P.A. 88-410; 89-83, eff. 6-30-95.)
19        (815 ILCS 720/5) (from Ch. 43, par. 305)
20        Sec. 5. Prohibited conduct. No brewer shall:
21             (1)  Induce or  coerce,  or  attempt  to  induce  or
22        coerce,  any  wholesaler  to engage in any illegal act or
23        course of conduct either by threatening to amend, modify,
24        cancel, terminate,  or  refuse  to  renew  any  agreement
25        existing between the brewer and the wholesaler, or by any
26        other means.
27             (2)  Require   a   wholesaler   to   assent  to  any
28        unreasonable  requirement,  condition,  understanding  or
29        term  or  an  agreement  prohibiting  a  wholesaler  from
30        selling the product of any other brewer or brewers.
31             (3)  Directly or  indirectly  fix  or  maintain  the
32        price at which a wholesaler may resell beer.
33             (4)  Fail  to  provide  to  each  wholesaler  of its
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 1        brands a written contract  which  embodies  the  brewer's
 2        agreement  with  its  wholesalers  and  conforms  to  the
 3        provisions of this Act.
 4             (5)  Require  any  wholesaler  to accept delivery of
 5        any beer, signs, advertising materials, or any other item
 6        or  commodity  which  has  not  been   ordered   by   the
 7        wholesaler,  or require any wholesaler to accept a common
 8        carrier for delivery of beer into this State  unless  the
 9        wholesaler  consents to the common carrier.  In the event
10        a brewer adopts a uniform  practice  of  delivering  beer
11        into   this   State  to  the  premises  of  all  licensed
12        wholesalers, the brewer may select the common carrier  in
13        this State.
14             (6)  Require  a  wholesaler without the wholesaler's
15        approval to participate in an arrangement for the payment
16        or crediting by an electronic fund  transfer  transaction
17        for  any item or commodity other than beer or to access a
18        wholesaler's account for any item or commodity other than
19        beer.
20             (7)  Require  a  wholesaler   to   assent   to   any
21        requirement  prohibiting  the  wholesaler from disposing,
22        after notice to the brewer, of a product which  has  been
23        deemed  salvageable by a local or State health authority.
24        Nothing herein shall prohibit the brewer from having  the
25        first  right to purchase the salvageable product from the
26        wholesaler at a price not to exceed the original cost  of
27        the  product  or  to  subsequently repurchase the product
28        from the insurance company or salvage company.
29             (8)  Refuse to approve or require  a  wholesaler  to
30        terminate  a  manager  or  successor manager without good
31        cause.  A brewer  has  good  cause  only  if  the  person
32        designated   as  manager  or  successor  manager  by  the
33        wholesaler  fails  to  meet  reasonable   standards   and
34        qualifications.
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 1             (9)  Present  an  agreement  to  a  wholesaler  that
 2        attempts  to  waive compliance with any provision of this
 3        Act or that requires the wholesaler to  waive  compliance
 4        with any provision of this Act.
 5             (10)  Terminate or attempt to terminate an agreement
 6        on  the  basis  that  the  wholesaler refuses to purchase
 7        signs or advertising materials or any quantity  or  types
 8        thereof.
 9             (11)  Discriminate  against  a  wholesaler  who  has
10        entered  into a contract relative to signs or advertising
11        materials by not making signs or advertising materials or
12        any quantity or types thereof available to the wholesaler
13        when the brewer makes available such signs or advertising
14        materials to other similarly situated wholesalers in this
15        State.
16        No brewer who, pursuant to an agreement with a wholesaler
17    which does not violate antitrust laws, has designated a sales
18    territory for which the wholesaler is  primarily  responsible
19    or  in  which  the  wholesaler is required to concentrate its
20    efforts,  shall  enter  into  an  agreement  with  any  other
21    wholesaler for the  purpose  of  establishing  an  additional
22    wholesaler for the brewer's brand or brands in all or part of
23    the same territory.
24        No  wholesaler who, pursuant to an agreement is granted a
25    sales territory for which it shall be  primarily  responsible
26    or  in which it is required to concentrate its efforts, shall
27    make any sale or delivery of  beer  to  any  retail  licensee
28    whose  place  of business is not within the territory granted
29    to the wholesaler.
30    (Source: P.A. 88-410; 89-83, eff. 6-30-95.)
31        Section 99.  Effective date.  This act takes effect  upon
32    becoming law.".

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