Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes > Chapter 369 - Intoxicating Liquor: Licenses and Taxes

• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• beer: means any beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of any infusion or decoction of barley, malt, hops, or any other similar product, or any combination thereof, in water. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.010
• brew pub: has the meaning ascribed to it in Nevada Revised Statutes 369.011
• brewery: means an establishment which manufactures malt beverages but does not sell those malt beverages at retail. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.013
• case of wine: means 12 bottles each containing 750 milliliters of wine or an amount equal to that volume of wine. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.015
• craft distillery: has the meaning ascribed to it in Nevada Revised Statutes 369.019
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• importer: means any person who, in the case of liquors which are brewed, fermented or produced outside the State, is first in possession thereof within the State after completion of the act of importation. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.030
• instructional wine-making facility: means an instructional wine-making facility operated pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes 369.035
• liquor: means beer, wine, gin, whiskey, cordials, ethyl alcohol or rum, and every liquid containing one-half of 1 percent or more of alcohol by volume and which is used for beverage purposes. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.040
• malt beverage: has the meaning ascribed to it in Nevada Revised Statutes 369.045
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• mortgage: includes a deed of trust. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.037
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• original package: means any container or receptacle first used for holding liquor, which container or receptacle is sealed. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.050
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Owner-occupied housing: means housing that is occupied by an owner as the owner"s primary residence. See Nevada Revised Statutes 107.015
• permissible person: means any duly ordained minister who uses liquor for sacramental purposes, any doctor, apothecary or pharmaceutist who uses alcohol for or in compounding medicine, or the representative of any school, university, hospital, clinic or industrial concern where liquor is used and needed for industrial purposes and not for concocting beverages for drink. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.070
• population: means the number of people in a specified area as determined by the last preceding national decennial census conducted by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce pursuant to Section 2 of Nevada Revised Statutes 0.050
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• retail liquor store: means an establishment where beers, wines and liquors, in original packages or by the drink, are sold to a consumer. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.090
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• supplier: means , with respect to liquor which is brewed, distilled, fermented, manufactured, rectified, produced or bottled:

  1. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.111

• to sell: means and includes any of the following:

  1. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.100

• Trustee: means the trustee of record. See Nevada Revised Statutes 107.015
• wholesaler: means a person licensed to sell liquor as it is originally packaged to retail liquor stores or to another licensed wholesaler, or to transfer malt beverages and wine to an estate distillery pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes 369.130
• wine: means any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of the natural content of fruits or other agricultural products containing sugar. See Nevada Revised Statutes 369.140