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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80535</law_id><section_number>4.1-118</section_number><catch_line>Certain information not to be made public</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="4.1">Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Alcoholic Beverage Control Act</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Definitions and General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Neither the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> nor its employees shall divulge any information regarding (i) financial reports or records required pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Annual review of operations of certain mixed beverage licensees" href="/4.1-114/">4.1-114</a>; (ii) the purchase <span class="dictionary">orders</span> and invoices for <span class="dictionary">beer</span> and <span class="dictionary">wine</span> filed with the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> by wholesale <span class="dictionary">beer</span> and <span class="dictionary">wine</span> <span class="dictionary">licensees</span>; or (iii) <span class="dictionary">beer</span> and <span class="dictionary">wine</span> taxes collected from, refunded to, or adjusted for any person. The provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Secrecy of information; penalties" href="/58.1-3/">58.1-3</a> shall apply, <span class="dictionary">mutatis mutandis</span>, to <span class="dictionary">beer</span> and <span class="dictionary">wine</span> taxes collected pursuant to this subtitle and to purchase <span class="dictionary">orders</span> and invoices for <span class="dictionary">beer</span> and <span class="dictionary">wine</span> filed with the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> by wholesale <span class="dictionary">beer</span> and <span class="dictionary">wine</span> <span class="dictionary">licensees</span>.
		Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the use or release of such information or documents by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> to any governmental or <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agency, or when considering the granting, denial, <span class="dictionary">revocation</span>, or suspension of a license or permit, or the assessment of any <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> against a <span class="dictionary">licensee</span> or permittee.
		Nor shall this section prohibit the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> or its employees from compiling and disseminating to any member of the public aggregate statistical information pertaining to (i) malt beverage excise tax collection as long as such information does not reveal or disclose excise tax collection from any identified <span class="dictionary">licensee</span>; (ii) the total quantities of <span class="dictionary">wine</span> sold or shipped into the Commonwealth by each out-of-state winery, distributor, or importer for resale in the Commonwealth by wholesale <span class="dictionary">wine</span> <span class="dictionary">licensees</span> collectively; (iii) the total amount of <span class="dictionary">wine</span> <span class="dictionary">sales</span> in the Commonwealth by wholesale <span class="dictionary">wine</span> <span class="dictionary">licensees</span> collectively; or (iv) the total amount of purchases or <span class="dictionary">sales</span> submitted by <span class="dictionary">licensees</span> as required pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Annual review of operations of certain mixed beverage licensees" href="/4.1-114/">4.1-114</a>, provided such information does not identify the <span class="dictionary">licensee</span>.</p></section></text><history>1988, c. 261, &#xA7; 4-145; 1993, c. 866; 1994, c. 179.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
