West Virginia Code § 60-6-8

Unlawful sale or possession by licensee
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A licensed person shall not:
(1) Sell, furnish, tender, or serve alcoholic liquors of a kind other than that which the license
or this chapter authorizes him or her to sell;
(2) Sell, furnish, tender, or serve beer to which wine, spirits, or alcohol has been added;
(3) Sell, furnish, tender, or serve wine to which other alcoholic spirits have been added,
otherwise than as required in the manufacture of the wine under rules of the commission;
(4) Sell, furnish, tender, or serve alcoholic liquors to a person specified in §60-3-22 of this
code;
(5) Sell, furnish, tender, or serve alcoholic liquors except as authorized by its license;
(6) Sell, furnish, tender, or serve alcoholic liquors other than by the drink, poured from the
alcoholic liquors' original container: Provided, That under certain requirements exceptions
to liquor by the drink are as follows:
(A) A private club licensed under §60-7-1 et seq. of this code, that is in good standing with
the commissioner and has paid a $1000 on-premises only bottle service fee to the
commissioner, may sell or servee liquor by the bottle to two or more persons for consumption
on the licensed premises only, and any liquor bottle sold by the private club shall be sold at
retail for personal use, aLnd not for resale, to a person for not less than 300 percent of the
private club's cost, and the liquor bottle shall be removed from the licensed premises by any
person or the license e; and
(B) A Class A licensee licensed under §60-8-1 et seq. of this code may sell or serve wine by
the bottle to two or more persons for consumption on the licensed premises only, unless the
liceWnsee has obtained a license or privilege authorizing other activity;
(7) Sell, furnish, tender, or serve pre-mixed alcoholic liquor that is not in the original
container: Provided, That a licensee may sell, furnish, tender, and serve up to 15 recipes of
pre-mixed beverages consisting of alcoholic liquors and nonalcoholic mixer, in a manner
approved by the commissioner and in accord with public health and safety standards:
(A) The licensee shall use approved dispensing and storage equipment which shall be
cleaned at the end of the day. Failure to clean the dispensing and storage equipment shall
result in the immediate suspension or revocation of the permit;
(B) The licensee shall sanitize and clean the pre-mixing beverage storage equipment after
each use or after each batch of the pre-mixed beverage is made; and
(C) The licensee shall maintain a written record reflecting the cleaning and sanitizing of the
storage and dispensing equipment for inspection by the commissioner and health inspectors;
(D) A violation or violations this subdivision may result in the suspension or revocation of the
permit and may result in additional sanctions under this chapter or §11-16-1 et seq. of this
code;
(8) Sell, furnish, tender, or serve any alcoholic liquor when forbidden by the provisions of
this chapter;
(9) Sell, possess, possess for sale, tender, serve, furnish, or provide any powdered alcohol;
(10) Keep on the premises covered by his or her license alcoholic liquor other than that
which he or she is authorized to sell, furnish, tender, or serve by such license or by this
chapter.
A person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50 lnor more than $500 or confined in jail not
less than 30 days nor more than one year, or both fined and confined for the first offense.
Upon conviction of a second or subsequent offense, the court may impose a penalty of
imprisonment in a state correctional facilitiy for a period not to exceed three years. A person
who violates any provision of this section for the second or any subsequent offense under
this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in a state
correctional facility for a period not to exceed three years.

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