Mississippi Office of Alcoholic Beverage Control

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The Mississippi Office of Alcoholic Beverage Control (MS ABC)^[1] is a Mississippi state government agency responsible for licensing or permitting participants in the alcoholic beverages industry in Mississippi. The agency is part of the Mississippi Department of Revenue.^[1] Mississippi is an alcoholic beverage control state, thus the state has a monopoly over the wholesaling or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverages.

The agency was established in 1966, when the state ended its prohibition of liquor, which had been adopted in 1907 (beer was allowed starting in 1933).^[1] Mississippi was the first state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment, which initiated Prohibition, and never ratified the Twenty-first Amendment, which ended Prohibition.^[1]

In Mississippi, sales of beer and light wine (not exceeding 10.3% and 6.25% alcohol by volume, respectively)^[2] are permitted in grocery stores.^[1] Otherwise, the state controls the sales of liquor and wine, for both wholesale and retail.^[1] As of 2017, this was implemented by "550 individually owned and operated package stores and 2,000 individually owned retail outlets."^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Mississippi Office of Alcoholic Beverage Control" (PDF). National Alcohol Beverage Control Association. March 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
^ "Beer". dor.ms.gov. Retrieved July 17, 2024.

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