Exceptions

Nothing in § 39-17-703 shall make it unlawful for: (1) Any priest or minister of any religious denomination or sect to receive and possess wines for sacramental purposes, or for any common or other carrier to ship or transport wine for sacramental purposes to any priest or minister of any religious denomination or sect; (2) Druggists to receive and possess alcohol and other intoxicating liquors and preparations as may be sold by druggists for the special purposes and in the manner as provided by law, for manufacturers of medicines that conform to the provisions of the law applicable to pure food and pure drugs, or for bona fide hospitals, and for manufacturers of perfumery and toilet articles and manufacturers of flavoring extracts, to receive and possess alcohol for use of bona fide patients of the hospitals, or in the manufacturing of medicines or flavoring extracts, or perfumery or toilet articles, or for any common or other carrier to ship or transport liquor, or alcohol for such purposes to druggists or hospitals, or manufacturers of medicines, or flavoring extracts or perfumery or toilet articles; (3) Any person engaged in the manufacture of thermostatic devices or temperature regulators to import alcohol into this state for use in the manufacture and charging of the devices and regulators; (4) Bona fide educational institutions to receive and possess alcohol for scientific and therapeutic purposes, or for any common or other carrier to ship or transport alcohol for those purposes to bona fide educational institutions; or (5) Any person to transport intoxicating liquor not in excess of the quantity permitted by 19 U.S.C. § 1202, notwithstanding that the liquor may be transported without the proper revenue affixed thereto, if the liquor was purchased outside the United States and brought into the state through an airport designated as a point of origin and destination for international passengers and cargo.