§596. Illegal transportation or delivery in prohibition area

A. When the sale of any alcoholic beverage containing more than one-half of one percent alcohol by volume is prohibited in any subdivision of this state, no wholesale or retail dealer or carrier for either of them shall deliver such beverage or cause such beverage to be transported or delivered in such subdivision to any retail or other dealer who participates or has participated in the purchase, barter, or exchange of such beverage, even though the purchase, barter or exchange be transacted outside of such subdivision. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the transportation or delivery of alcohol or alcoholic beverages or substances for use solely in the preparation of medicines or for medicinal purposes by prescription departments of drug stores, hospitals, or other business establishments or persons licensed to compound or dispense medicines.

B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be punished by the same penalties as are fixed for illegal sales of alcoholic beverages by ordinances adopted by the subdivision wherein the offense occurred in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 26:595.

C. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the transportation from a political subdivision where the sale of alcoholic beverages is legal to another political subdivision where the sale of alcoholic beverages is legal or intrastate transportation of alcoholic beverages in political subdivisions where the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited under this Chapter.

Added by Acts 1962, No. 366, §1; Acts 1987, No. 696, §1.