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§ 15.2- 2288.3. Licensed farm wineries; local regulation of certain activities.
A. It is the policy of the Commonwealth to preserve the economic vitality of the Virginia wine
industry while maintaining appropriate land use authority to protect the health, safety, and
welfare of the citizens of the Commonwealth, and to permit the reasonable expectation of uses in
specific zoning categories. Local restriction upon such activities and events of farm wineries
licensed in accordance with Title 4.1 to market and sell their products shall be reasonable and
shall take into account the economic impact on the farm winery of such restriction and whether
such activities and events are usual and customary for farm wineries throughout the
Commonwealth. Usual and customary activities and events at farm wineries shall be permitted
without local regulation unless there is a substantial impact on the health, safety, or welfare of the
public. No local ordinance regulating noise, other than outdoor amplified music, arising from
activities and events at farm wineries shall be more restrictive than that in the general noise
ordinance. In authorizing outdoor amplified music at a farm winery, the locality shall consider the
effect on adjacent property owners and nearby residents.
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D. No locality may treat private personal gatherings held by the owner of a licensed farm winery
who resides at the farm winery or on property adjacent thereto that is owned or controlled by such
owner at which gatherings wine is not sold or marketed and for which no consideration is
received by the farm winery or its agents differently from private personal gatherings by other
citizens.
E. No locality shall regulate any of the following activities of a farm winery licensed in
accordance with subdivision 5 of § 4.1 -207:
1. The production and harvesting of fruit and other agricultural products and the manufacturing of
wine;
2. The on- premises sale, tasting, or consumption of wine during regular business hours within the
normal course of business of the licensed farm winery;
3. The direct sale and shipment of wine by common carrier to consumers in accordance with Title
4.1 and regulations of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board;
4. The sale and shipment of wine to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, licensed wholesalers,
and out -of -state purchasers in accordance with Title 4. 1, regulations of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board, and federal law;
5. The storage, warehousing, and wholesaling of wine in accordance with Title 4. 1, regulations of
the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, and federal law; or
6. The sale of wine - related items that are incidental to the sale of wine.
(2006, c. 794; 2007, cc. 611, 657.)