West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Administration
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The West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Administration (ABCA) is the
alcoholic beverage control state Alcoholic beverage control states, generally called control states, less often ABC states, are 17 states in the United States that, as of 2016, have state monopoly over the wholesaling or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverage ...
authority in the U.S. state of
West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the B ...
. The agency is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the ABCC or ABC. The Administration was created in 1935 after the repeal of the state's alcohol prohibition amendment, and for fifty six years, maintained a monopoly on wholesale and retail sales of liquor in the state. On February 27, 1990, Senate Bill 337 was passed, which discontinued the retail sale of alcohol by the state. In 1990 and 1991, 214 state-owned liquor stores were sold, and profits of $26,500,000 were transferred by the ABCA to the state's general fund

The agency has three primary functions: 1) Processing liquor law applications 2) Enforcement of liquor law regulations 3) Educating the public about alcohol abuse The agency often makes routine surprise inspections of bars in the state to look for violations. The agency also works closely with law enforcement agencies especially in the college towns of Huntington, WV (Marshall University) and Morgantown, WV (West Virginia University).


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List of law enforcement agencies in West Virginia This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 s ...


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West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Administration
{{authority control State alcohol agencies of the United States Alcohol Beverage Control Administration Government agencies established in 1935