Every application for the issuance or renewal of the following licenses shall be accompanied by a license fee in the following specified amounts:

A. manufacturer's license as a distiller, except a brandy manufacturer, three thousand dollars ($3,000);

B. manufacturer's license as a brewer, three thousand dollars ($3,000);

C. manufacturer's license as a rectifier, one thousand fifty dollars ($1,050);

D. wholesaler's license to sell all alcoholic beverages for resale only, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500);

E. wholesaler's license to sell spirituous liquors and wine for resale only, one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750);

F. wholesaler's license to sell spirituous liquors for resale only, one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500);

G. wholesaler's license to sell beer and wine for resale only, one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500);

H. wholesaler's license to sell beer for resale only, one thousand dollars ($1,000);

I. wholesaler's license to sell wine for resale only, seven hundred fifty dollars ($750);

J. retailer's license, one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300);

K. dispenser's license, one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300);

L. canopy license, one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300);

M. restaurant license, one thousand fifty dollars ($1,050);

N. club license, for clubs with more than two hundred fifty members, one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250), and for clubs with two hundred fifty members or fewer, two hundred fifty dollars ($250);

O. wine bottler's license to sell to wholesalers only, five hundred dollars ($500);

P. public service license, one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250);

Q. nonresident licenses, for a total billing to New Mexico wholesalers:

(1) in excess of:

$3,000,000

annuallylk

$10,500;

1,000,000

annually

5,250;

500,000

annually

3,750;

200,000

annually

2,700;

100,000

annually

1,800;

and

50,000

annually

900;

and

(2)

of $50,000 or less

$300;

R. wine wholesaler's license, for persons with sales of five thousand gallons of wine per year or less, twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and for persons with sales in excess of five thousand gallons of wine per year, one hundred dollars ($100); and

S. beer bottler's license, two hundred dollars ($200).

History: Laws 1981, ch. 39, § 32; 1983, ch. 280, § 1; 1988, ch. 60, § 5; 1989, ch. 241, § 1; 1993, ch. 68, § 7; 1998, ch. 79, § 3; 1999, ch. 276, § 1; 2000, ch. 13, § 1; 2003, ch. 246, § 1.

The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, substituted "one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300)" for "one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250)" in Subsections J, K and L, and substituted "one thousand fifty dollars ($1,050)" for "one thousand dollars ($1,000)" in Subsection M.

The 2000 amendment, effective May 17, 2000, rewrote Subsection N, which read "club license, one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250)."

The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, in Subsection Q, designated the formerly undesignated paragraph as Paragraph (1), in that paragraph, deleted "or less" following "50,000", and added Paragraph (2).

The 1998 amendment, effective May 20, 1998, deleted "annual" following "issuance or" in the introductory paragraph, and rewrote Subsection Q.

The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, deleted the Subsection A designation at the beginning; designated former Paragraphs (1) through (18) of former Subsection A as Subsections A through R; substituted "one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250)" for "one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500)" in Subsections G, K to N, and P; added Subsection S; deleted former Subsection B, pertaining to the renewal fee for licenses issued under former acts; and made a minor stylistic change.

Director unable to apply fee for canceled license to new license. — Liquor chief (now director) is without power to cancel a license issued under one paragraph and then apply the amount paid on such license to the fee requisite to obtaining a license under another paragraph, the full amount being payable for the latter regardless of the number of other licenses which may be held by the particular licensee. 1943 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 43-4430.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Intoxicating Liquors § 233.

Liability for license fee of one who has conducted business without required license, 5 A.L.R. 1312, 107 A.L.R. 652.

48 C.J.S. Intoxicating Liquors § 182.