§ 3-13-2. Purposes — Construction — Variation by contract prohibited.
(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its remedial purposes
and policies.
(b) The purposes and policies of this chapter are:
(1) To regulate agreements between suppliers and their wholesalers to benefit the economy
and enhance competition in this state and to promote moderation and obedience to the
laws of this state and the United States controlling the distribution and sale of
malt beverages;
(2) To protect wholesalers su
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§ 3-13-2. Purposes — Construction — Variation by contract prohibited.
(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its remedial purposes
and policies.
(b) The purposes and policies of this chapter are:
(1) To regulate agreements between suppliers and their wholesalers to benefit the economy
and enhance competition in this state and to promote moderation and obedience to the
laws of this state and the United States controlling the distribution and sale of
malt beverages;
(2) To protect wholesalers substantial initial and continuing investments of money, time
and effort in their distributorships and to stimulate greater investment of those
resources in these small businesses by assuring their continuation on a fair, equitable
and nondiscriminatory basis;
(3) To enhance competition in the malt beverage industry by:
(i) Assuring the wholesaler is free to manage its business enterprise in the manner the
wholesaler deems best, including the wholesaler's right independently to establish
its selling prices, to determine the efforts and resources which the wholesaler will
exert to promote and develop the sale of a supplier's products; and
(ii) Assuring the public and suppliers that wholesalers will price competitively, devote
reasonable efforts and resources to sales of all supplier's products marketed in this
state and maintain satisfactory sales levels.
(4) To govern all relations between suppliers and their wholesalers, including any renewals
to agreements between them, to the full extent consistent with the constitutions of
this state and the United States.
(c) The effect of this chapter may not be varied by agreement. Any agreement purporting
to do so is void and unenforceable to that extent only.