Sec. 55.03.  ELIGIBILITY FOR PERMIT.  A manufacturer's agent's warehousing permit may be issued to an entity:
(1)  that receives malt beverages from another entity, or that other entity's immediate successor in interest, that:
(A)  is located and chartered in the United Mexican States;
(B)  has held, for the two years preceding the date of the application:
(i)  a nonresident manufacturer's license, nonresident brewer's permit, and a nonresident seller's permit;
(ii)  a nonresident brewer's license and a nonresident seller's permit; or
(iii)  a combination of Subparagraph (i) and Subparagraph (ii); and
(C)  during each of those two years has shipped or caused to be shipped into this state for ultimate sale to qualified distributors and wholesalers in this state at least one-half million barrels of malt beverages of the various brands manufactured or brewed by the entity; and
(2)  whose employees, located in this state or elsewhere, perform the activities authorized under Chapters 36 and 73 on behalf of the entity.
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 247 (H.B. 2727), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.
Amended by: 
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 129 (S.B. 350), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1359 (H.B. 1545), Sec. 158, eff. September 1, 2021.