1.    A domestic distillery that produces no more than twelve thousand proof gallons [42000 liters] of spirits per year may sell and deliver, onsite or offsite, the spirits produced by the distillery directly to licensed retailers. The distillery may sell and deliver spirits onsite to a licensed retailer that presents the retailer’s license or a photocopy of the license. The distillery may deliver the spirits offsite if the distillery:

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a.    Uses the distillery’s equipment, trucks, and employees to deliver the spirits; b.    Contracts with a licensed distributor to ship and deliver the spirits to the retailer; or c.    Contracts with a common carrier to ship and deliver the spirits to the retailer directly from the distillery or the distillery’s warehouse.

2.    The total amount of spirits each domestic distillery may sell or deliver directly to all licensed retailers may not exceed two hundred cases per year. Individual shipments delivered by common carrier may not exceed three cases a day for each licensed retailer. A case may not exceed two and thirty-eight hundredths gallons [9 liters].

3.    As used in this section, “proof gallon” means a gallon [3.78 liters] of liquid at sixty degrees Fahrenheit [15.5 degrees Celsius] which contains fifty percent ethyl alcohol by volume or its equivalent.