---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 U.S.C. § 206"
title: "27"
title_heading: "Intoxicating Liquors"
number: "206"
heading: "Bulk sales and bottling"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/27/206"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Federal Alcohol Administration Act"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Alcohol Administration"
---

# §206. Bulk sales and bottling

- (a) **Offenses—** It shall be unlawful for any [person](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-3)—
  - (1) To sell or offer to sell, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5) [in bulk](#c) except, under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, for export or to the following, or to import [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5) [in bulk](#c) except, under such regulations, for sale to or for use by the following: A distiller, rectifier of [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5), [person](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-3) operating a bonded warehouse qualified under the internal-revenue laws or a class 8 bonded warehouse qualified under the customs laws, a winemaker for the fortification of [wines](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-6), a proprietor of an industrial alcohol plant, or an agency of the [United States](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-1) or any [State](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-1) or political subdivision thereof.
  - (2) To sell or offer to sell, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of warehouse receipts for [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5) [in bulk](#c) unless such warehouse receipts require that the warehouseman shall package such [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5), before delivery, in [bottles](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-8) labeled and marked in accordance with law, or deliver such [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5) [in bulk](#c) only to [persons](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-3) to whom it is lawful to sell or otherwise dispose of [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5) [in bulk](#c).
  - (3) To [bottle](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-8) [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5) unless the bottler is a [person](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-3) to whom it is lawful to sell or otherwise dispose of [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5) [in bulk](#c).
- (b) **Penalty—** Any [person](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-3) who violates the requirements of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year or both, and shall forfeit to the [United States](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-1) all [distilled spirits](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-5) with respect to which the violation occurs and the containers thereof.
- (c) **“In bulk” defined—** The term “in bulk” mean in containers having a capacity in excess of one [wine](/usc/27/211.md?p=a-6) gallon.

## Source credit

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 106, formerly § 6, 49 Stat. 985; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 2, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; renumbered title I, § 106, Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(1), (2), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4517.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of the Treasury” was substituted in subsec. (a)(1) for “Administrator”, meaning the Administrator of the Federal Alcohol Administration, pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, see note set out under section 201 of this title.