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State law protects a specific list of farm winery activities from local ordinance, and sets a high bar before a locality can restrict the rest. Most disputes turn on the phrase 'usual and customary.'
VHN Staff · · Statewide
The Mixed Beverage Annual Review is due on your license anniversary, not a fixed date, and the records it depends on have to be built months earlier. Here is what it is and where operators get caught.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
Not the interesting numbers. The ones that decide whether you keep your license. Each one is a threshold somebody crosses without noticing.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
The first-offense penalty schedule is public, specific, and almost nobody in the industry has read it. Twenty-six violations, the suspension days and the civil charge attached to each.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
Virginia ABC issues more than seventy license and permit types. Most operators only ever need one of about a dozen. Here is how to find yours without reading the whole code.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
