Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 22 of chapter 138 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any individual, partnership, or corporation, regularly and lawfully conducting a parcel delivery service, or a general express or trucking business, or regularly and lawfully engaged in the business of leasing trucks for hire, with or without drivers, may, if authorized by a permit issued by the commission, transport or deliver the products sold at retail by farmer-winery licensees under section nineteen B, or farmer-brewery licensees under section nineteen E to the ultimate consumers of such products. There shall be no fee for such permit, and persons operating a vehicle when engaged in such transportation or delivery shall not be required to carry such permit or certified copy thereof. Parcels transported or delivered under this paragraph shall be clearly labeled as containing alcoholic beverages and requiring the signatures of, and delivery to, a person legally authorized to consume alcoholic beverages in the commonwealth. No such delivery shall exceed twenty liters.