Florida Statutes Chapter 562 — BEVERAGE LAW: ENFORCEMENT

From the Legislature's 2026 edition, which includes changes effective through January 1, 2027. Later effective dates are retained in each section's source notes.

Title XXXIV

• § 562.01 — Possession of untaxed beverages.
• § 562.02 — Possession of beverage not permitted to be sold under license.
• § 562.025 — Possession of beverages as food ingredients.
• § 562.03 — Storage on licensed premises.
• § 562.06 — Sale only on licensed premises.
• § 562.061 — Misrepresentation of beverages sold on licensed premises.
• § 562.07 — Illegal transportation of beverages.
• § 562.11 — Selling, giving, or serving alcoholic beverages to person under age 21; providing a proper name; misrepresenting or misstating age or age of another to induce licensee to serve alcoholic beverages to person under 21; penalties.
• § 562.111 — Possession of alcoholic beverages by persons under age 21 prohibited.
• § 562.112 — Alcohol-related or drug-related overdoses; medical assistance; immunity from arrest, charge, prosecution, and penalization.
• § 562.12 — Beverages sold with improper license, or without license or registration, or held with intent to sell prohibited.
• § 562.121 — Operating bottle club without license prohibited.
• § 562.13 — Employment of minors or certain other persons by certain vendors prohibited; exceptions.
• § 562.131 — Solicitation for sale of alcoholic beverage prohibited; penalty.
• § 562.14 — Regulating the time for sale of alcoholic and intoxicating beverages; prohibiting use of licensed premises.
• § 562.15 — Unlawful possession; unpaid taxes.
• § 562.16 — Possession of beverages upon which tax is unpaid.
• § 562.165 — Production of beer or wine for personal or family use; exemption.
• § 562.17 — Collection of unpaid beverage taxes.
• § 562.18 — Possession of beverage upon which federal tax unpaid.
• § 562.20 — Monthly reports by common and other carriers of beverages required.
• § 562.23 — Conspiracy to violate Beverage Law; penalty.
• § 562.24 — Administration of oaths by director or authorized employees.
• § 562.25 — State bonded warehouses.
• § 562.26 — Delivering beverage on which tax unpaid.
• § 562.27 — Seizure and forfeiture.
• § 562.28 — Possession of beverages in fraud of Beverage Law.
• § 562.29 — Raw materials and personal property; seizure and forfeiture.
• § 562.30 — Possession of beverage prima facie evidence; exception.
• § 562.31 — Possession of raw materials prima facie evidence; exception.
• § 562.32 — Moving or concealing beverage with intent to defraud state of tax; penalty.
• § 562.33 — Beverage and personal property; seizure and forfeiture.
• § 562.34 — Containers; seizure and forfeiture.
• § 562.35 — Conveyance; seizure and forfeiture.
• § 562.36 — Beverage on conveyance prima facie evidence; proviso.
• § 562.38 — Report of seizures.
• § 562.408 — Exercise of police power.
• § 562.41 — Searches; penalty.
• § 562.42 — Destruction of forfeited property.
• § 562.44 — Donation of forfeited beverages or raw materials to state institutions; sale of forfeited beverages.
• § 562.45 — Penalties for violating Beverage Law; local ordinances; prohibiting regulation of certain activities or business transactions; requiring nondiscriminatory treatment; providing exceptions.
• § 562.451 — Moonshine whiskey; ownership, possession, or control prohibited; penalties; rule of evidence.
• § 562.452 — Curb service of intoxicating liquor prohibited.
• § 562.453 — Curb drinking of intoxicating liquor prohibited.
• § 562.454 — Vendors to be closed in time of riot.
• § 562.455 — Adulterating liquor; penalty.
• § 562.46 — Legal remedies not impaired.
• § 562.47 — Rules of evidence; Beverage Law.
• § 562.48 — Minors patronizing, visiting, or loitering in a dance hall.
• § 562.50 — Habitual drunkards; furnishing intoxicants to, after notice.
• § 562.51 — Retail alcoholic beverage establishments; rights as private enterprise.
• § 562.61 — Sale, offer for sale, purchase, or use of alcohol vaporizing devices prohibited.