                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONSTRUCTION AND PURPOSE (§ 4.1-400)

This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying
purposes and policies.
		The underlying purposes and policies of the chapter are:

1. To promote the interests of the parties and the public in fair business
relations between wine wholesalers and wineries, and in the continuation of wine
wholesalerships on a fair basis;

2. To preserve and protect the existing three-tier system for the distribution
of wine, which system is deemed material to the proper regulation by the Board
of the distribution of alcoholic beverages;

3. To prohibit unfair treatment of wine wholesalers by wineries, promote
compliance with valid franchise agreements, and define certain rights and
remedies of wineries in regard to cancellation of franchise agreements with
wholesalers;

4. To establish conditions for creation and continuation of all wholesale wine
distributorships, including original agreements and any renewals or amendments
thereto, to the full extent consistent with the laws and Constitutions of the
Commonwealth and the United States; and

5. To provide for a system of designation and registration of franchise
agreements between wineries and wholesalers with the Board as an aid to Board
regulation of the distribution of wine by wholesalers.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 4-118.22; 1985, c. 542, § 4-118.42; 1989, c. 10; 1993,
c. 866.