As used in this chapter, “supplier” means, with respect to liquor which is brewed, distilled, fermented, manufactured, rectified, produced or bottled:
1. Outside the United States:
(a) The brewer, distiller, manufacturer, producer, rectifier, vintner or bottler of the liquor, or his or her designated agent; or
(b) The owner of the liquor when it is first transported into any area under the jurisdiction of the United States Government, if the brewer, distiller, manufacturer, rectifier, producer, vintner or bottler of the liquor, or a designated agent of such a person, has not designated an importer to import the liquor into this State;
2. Within the United States but outside this State, the brewer, distiller, manufacturer, rectifier, producer, vintner or bottler of the liquor, or his or her designated agent; or
3. Within this State, the brewery, brew pub, distiller, craft distillery, manufacturer, rectifier, producer or bottler of the liquor or his or her designated agent.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 1009; A 2003, 971; 2005, 1324; 2017, 2582)